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Word: surpluses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last chance for Seniors to redeem surplus tickets this morning at Straus 23 between 10 and 1 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIOR SPREAD | 6/11/1929 | See Source »

...liberal were U. S. citizens at the time of Japan's great earthquake of 1923, so frugal were Japanese administrators of the relief fund, that last week a great modern hospital was inaugurated in Tokyo-built and permanently endowed entirely from surplus monies of the American relief fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fruit Of Frugality | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...part of one cent to the wealth of the U. S. What they have done is simply to gather up, at enormous expense, the tokens of wealth created by others, pile it up in a heap, dole out small portions of the total to their subscribers and let the surplus accumulate. W. BLENKO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 3, 1929 | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...Baldwin has given his slogan as 'Safety First.' That is not very thrilling to the spirit of youth. If he had said 'Live Dangerously' or 'Adventure Greatly' he might have caught the eye and heart of a younger generation. ... If he had promised husbands for surplus women, or a tax on bachelors ... or State-endowed 'talk-ies.' he might have aroused their interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Apathy | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...This tariff is nearly 100% higher than the rate effective in September of last year. Good news for Italy's wheat growers, it was sad news for bread-eaters and macaroni men; particularly sad for U. S. and Canadian farmers, who are still racing to dispose of surplus wheat crops (TIME, May 13). To Prime Minister Mussolini the development of wheat growing is more immediately important than cheap flour for his people. Half of Italy's trade deficit in 1928 was due to wheat imports, which amounted to three billion lire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Wheat Up, Skirts Down | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

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