Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That would be a Tragedy of Errors. For the U. S. wants Peace. But the U. S. has spent nearly eight years trying to make up its mind what it will do to stay at peace. And still the U. S. does not know. Its quandary arose nearly eight years ago when the U. S. people discovered themselves Babes in a pre-war World...
...estimate had it that the Polish loan would amount to $200,000,000), but Rumania, Turkey, Greece and Egypt are also expected to share. Almost all the money, which will be lent through the Board of Trade, the British equivalent of the U. S. Department of Commerce will be spent in Britain to buy munitions, raw materials, war supplies. About $30,000,000 can be used to buy goods that Britain has imported and is willing to reexport. The bill is expected to pass Parliament this week. The British did not try to disguise the projected loans as anything...
...Falk disputes this on several counts: a) "It is a well-known fact that advertising is the cheapest form of selling effort"; b) the total cost of advertising in the U. S. ($1,500,000,000 a year) is less than 2% of the total income earned and spent in the country; c) prices of widely advertised products (e.g., autos, radios) have steadily declined as advertising made mass-production economies possible...
...year slight, greying Josephine Roche became heir to the minority interest of her late conservative father, John J. Roche, in the Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., blood was spilled on another page of the grim history of Colorado's mine wars. To Vassar-educated Miss Roche, who had spent 19 years as a social worker, that was bitter: six diggers had been killed in a strike riot within sight of the gaunt tipple of Rocky Mountain Fuel's Columbine mine...
Starting his campaign without help from Manhattan brokerage houses, which had no desire to exchange shots with National City interests, young "Lang" Williams spent two years collecting proxies, saw his ammunition dump scattered to the four winds of Depression in the frenzied selling of the fall of 1929. But carrying the banner for his family house he started over again, by April 1930 had gathered enough proxy shot & shell to dislodge the Swenson management...