Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, Germany's journalistic big guns, their aim corrected twice daily, poured an unceasing barrage on Poland. Danzig's Nazi Gauleiter Albert Forster spent two hours with the Führer, hurried to Danzig to thunder still another demand for its return to the Reich-but significantly set no date nor hour for the return. Danzig itself was in a bad way. Its business had gradually approached a standstill-and Nazi papers accused Poland of strangling its trade. Its armed force of Nazis was estimated at 15,000, augmented last week by 1,500 spade-equipped members...
...Only about 3,000,000 out-of-town patrons have visited the Fair. There they stayed an average seven hours, spent an average $2.06 apiece ($1.44 plus admission. Coney Island average...
...garret, Bogousslavsky explained, he had taken the painting, had diligently spent his time removing "tar" from it and retouching faded colors. Said he, "I have always loved Watteau. I could not bear to see it in the Louvre in such condition...
...closing rush to complete the Fair on schedule, overtime charges ate into the budget. World's Fair officials maintain labor disputes raised Fair costs about $2,000,000, cost exhibitors and concessionaires another $2,000,000. To that unlooked-for expense was added another: $1,588,000 spent to build a Hall of Nations (for foreign participants), which Congress refused to pay for, after indicating that it would foot the bill. (But the Government...
...nonsmoker, Flier Earhart endorsed Lucky Strikes to get the $1,500 she wanted to give the first Byrd Antarctic expedition. She liked meeting fellow celebrities. The Prince of Wales agreed with her that fliers made good dancers, after which they spent an evening together proving it. But when Amelia Earhart's plane disappeared in the Pacific she was doing the thing she liked best...