Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Plan the total was fixed at $8,806,000,000 cash. On the instalment plan, over an agreed stretch of 58 years, this sum will become, with cumulative 5% interest, 27 billions. This sum, huge though it sounds, is 116 billions less than the creditor nations demanded at Versailles ten years...
...southpaw Nekola, reputed to be the best pitcher in college circles with ten victories and no defeats to his credit, may start, but it is more probable that Hebert, a right hander, will try to repeat his feat of last week. The University mentor will place B. H. Ticknor '31 in the sinister garden regardless of Coach Barry's selection...
...attorney for Homeyher Inc. attempted to have the case dismissed for insufficient grounds, but Craig's lawyer convinced the judge that the case warranted a trial and succeeded in having a date arranged. The actual trial will probably begin in about ten days...
...percolator for the apartment last week fell victims to the price war that has for some months been agitating the tobacco business. Last week's developments: 1) Schulte and United Cigar stores offered 15? cigarets at two packs for a quarter-but no more coupons. Cartons of ten packages, $1.20. 2) The Atlantic & Pacific and the Liggett stores (whose longstanding price cutting on cigarets is chiefly responsible for the present troubles) met the United and Schulte cut by announcing (in New York) that they would sell two 15? packages for 23?. Cartons of ten packages, $1.15. Last month President...
...work as laborers. The eight contractors ruthlessly tore down peasants' houses, appropriated land. Intent on honoring simple democratic Dr. Sun, they paid little attention to each other. When the eight single miles of road were finished they failed to connect, some sections by as much as ten feet. Despite the fact that 108 of the Chinese peasants that Sun Yat-sen had lived for committed suicide when their homes were confiscated, the eight contractors condemned more land, tore down more houses to straighten the roadway. One of the new houses condemned for the memorial road belonged to a Nanking...