Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colorado's Adams listened patiently, asked embarrassing questions, stuffed scribbled notes in his pockets, said "No" a great many times. To-Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace he said "Yes," and restored to the Third Deficiency Bill $119,000,000 for crop loans through the Commodity Credit Corporation-an item killed two days before by the slaughter-bent House...
...afternoon waned, dinnertime came, then night, but still the Deficiency herdsman stuck to the floor: explaining, arguing, wheedling votes. Hot Senatorial tempers kept the galleries lathered with laughter. But Adams and his adjournment-bent majority held their lines, beat off all amendments, brought the Third Deficiency Bill safely through the gauntlet...
...third year in succession he has a major surplus to fight. Last year wheat was the most acute headache, year before it was cotton, this year corn. This week he had to face the music. On August 1 came due the loans of 57? a bushel which he made to farmers who put under seal part of their last year's crop...
When Secretary of State Cordell Hull last week abrogated the 28-year-old U.S.-Japan treaty of commerce and navigation, he put the skids under trade with the U.S.'s third-best customer.* To Japan last year went 7.7% ($239,639,000) U.S. exports; from Japan came 6.5% ($126,828,000) of U.S. imports. Small as this was in the U.S. total it represented 16.6% of Japan's foreign exports, made the U.S. her No. 1 customer. By toting up this million-dollar-a-day business, Japan could see that...
...figure," but the Generalissimo was "bald" and "mild-looking." We laughed as we pictured Chiang, Madame and Donald [Chiang's Australian adviser] flying frantically about the country by aeroplane . . . clearing out the drains in one city, buttoning up the coats in another, starting a trachoma clinic in a third...