Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Battaglia del Grano, the Wheat Battle, of 1938 is lost. Three-fourths of Italy's bread requirements will have to be bought abroad with "old, the gold wrung from meagre exports and the tourist trade, the gold earmarked for coal, oil, steel, copper, nickel, tin -for a thousand commodities Italy lacks and must have to swagger and grab and fight like a great power...
...gambler, Company started in 1847. Very good name; is making a small amount of money at present. Assets over $150,000 but the owner 63 years old has lent the company money and wants it back. If you can invest three or four thousand and pay him back out of incresaed profits (get that--pay him back your money) the company is yours in time. If you can't you are probably out your investment and job too. (That's logical...
Commented one: "Only if they have the mental ability to absorb the knowledge and the physical immunity against the social atmosphere. Same goes for my daughters." Nearly 58 percent wish their daughters to go to college. Comments: "If that will help support me." "No! No! a thousand times...
...altar. The Countess, holding a bouquet of yellow roses sent by her absentee groom, was solemnly married to the proxy, then broke open a note from the real thing: By this time we should be man and wife. This makes me extremely happy. A thousand kisses. Kurt...
...student, a Lowell House Junior, received through the mall an extortion note accompanied by a picture of a disrobed female reposing on a bench. "Remember the Rivera or was it Revere?" was the salutation of the letter. The text of the missive was brief--"Five thousand dollars . . . . OR ELSE." The signature was simply "Bev, the clutch," a name feared by the student to be that of a notorious Harvard Square and Huntington Avenue blackmailer...