Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cold and clear was the U. S. reaction to Russia's move. At the White House the President conferred with Statesmen Hull and Welles, spent 45 minutes with Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope. All day reports of Russian bombings of Helsinki came to the State Department from the U.S. Minister to Finland. At 6 p.m. Mr. Hull got word that in a raid of 15 planes, bombs had fallen near the U. S. legation, that buildings within three blocks were in flames...
Picked up and taken to the hospital, she spent six weeks there, six more weeks at home recovering from wounds which had punctured both lungs. She was going to appear against Coffman as soon as she was well enough. He began hounding her. "He bothered me-called me-even followed me. I would have left Dallas but I had no money. He had even cost me my job." He constantly intercepted her on the street, slapped her. "He called me . . . and told me he would kill me if I appeared against...
Four years later Richard Knight had a $200,000 bank account, was earning more than $80,000 a year. He specialized in sensational divorce cases. Not yet 30, Lawyer Knight lived in a suite at the St. Regis. He drove a Cadillac, had spent a week on the Riviera with a celebrated prima donna, boasted that he called Mrs. Vincent Astor by her first name...
...little red-brick city of York, Pa. (pop. 55,254) tingled with anticipation of Christmas. Under the evergreen trees and colored lights festooning Continental Square (the itinerant Continental Congress met in York while Washington was at Valley Forge 162 winters ago), York's people thronged the stores, spent more freely than in any winter since 1929. York's industries offered 10%, more jobs than last year. Payrolls were 20% larger. York had almost no relief problem at all. York was grinning with prosperity...
...with a minimum of ceremony, the airline capital of the U. S. moved to the finest and the most expensive flying field in the world. Into North Beach airport, New York City had poured $15,000,000, the Federal Government $25,000,000 (through WPA, which spent more money there than on any other project), the airlines thousands more in shop and office equipment. For all this the transcontinental airlines, riding on a passenger boom that has skyrocketed revenues 42.19% over last year's respectable totals, were properly grateful...