Word: taken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...things the convention showed: 1) there was still plenty of life in an organization which could take such a beating, 2) factionalism had taken a heavy toll. Its membership was down from a peak 381,000 to a claimed 172,000, money on hand from $428,000 a year and a half ago to $58,000 at last year...
Food. After the war-weary city had displayed white flags from the tallest buildings and the Franco troops had taken possession, 6,500 truckloads of food for half-starved inhabitants began to roll into Madrid. New Franco money (the old Loyalist paper money was declared valueless) arrived by carloads to be exchanged for pre-war currency. Direct train service between the capital and Saragossa was restored after nearly three years. Sandbags piled up in front of buildings on the Gran Via were removed, shutters were pulled up, temporary boarding was torn down. The rooms of hotels long considered unsafe because...
...Improvisation, Notation and the Aesthetics of Folk Music." "Folk music," says Author Sargeant, "is the anonymous and musically illiterate expression of a whole people." America's folk music is jazz and the folk who originated it were Negroes. The contention is an old one, but hitherto nobody had taken such trouble to authenticate...
...care to make new issues attractive, they invariably command a premium over the par purchase price, thus anyone can take a free ride on what amounts to 10% margin by selling his allotment before delivery. Author Porter figures that some $80,000,000 worth of free rides have been taken on the $15,000,000,000 in Treasury notations since...
Sylvia Porter herself has taken free rides on ten Treasury issues, has each year doubled in this and other ways the capital she put into the Government market. She speculates with the help of complicated graphs, for which her husband, Reed Richard Porter of Irving Trust Co., has to do the arithmetic. In what spare time remains, she plays the piano, goes to the movies, and writes fiction that thus far has impressed no publisher...