Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deficit of at least $3,722,000,000. It meant that the national debt, which stood at $37,379,410,474 on June 1, had a good chance of passing $40,000,000,000 by this time next year, an increase of $20,000,000,000 since Franklin Roosevelt took office. Spending was by all odds the biggest job performed by the 75th Congress. Its other work done: Wages 6 Hours, To give the President his pet piece of legislation. Congress last week passed a compromise bill (TIME, June 20) fixing minimum wages at 25^ an hour, maximum hours...
...residents of the town of Maryd, Pa., did not like it when the new Maryd Mining Co. began legal digging in the hill under their town. When the company tunneled back 100 feet into the hill and its shafts threatened to undermine Maryd's homes, Maryd took action. One night last week, Maryd's menfolk marched down the hillside to the mine opening, dragged out the watchman, machinery, tools. As Maryd's womenfolk stood back looking on, they set off 36 sticks of dynamite, blew the new mine clean out to the sky. Maryd shook slightly, settled...
From a 400-square-foot pocket among the 10,000-foot peaks of the Upper Pyrenees Lieut. Colonel Antonio Beltran last week led his troops of Leftist Spain's "Lost Division" into France. There, French police took their customary secret poll of the refugees to determine to which side of Spain the men wanted to return, then herded them into trains for the border. Only 980 voted to go to Rightist Spain; the remaining 8,820 elected to return to Leftist territory. Arriving at Gerona, the first contingent of the "Lost Division" received a rousing greeting from Spanish Leftists...
...Lord Mayor, Alfred Byrne, Fine Gael Party member. For 20 years dapper, little "Alf" has ruled the Dublin roost. Last week, his total poll barely gave him the third seat under proportional representation in Dublin's Northeast district as "Dev's" Minister for Posts & Telegraphs, Oscar Traynor, took the first, a Cosgravite the second...
...Standard Statistics, Moody's, Poor's and Fitch's.* In 1936 the Comptroller of the Currency made this custom a requirement in cases when bonds are of doubtful value. Last January a research economist at the University of Chicago with the resounding name of Melchior Palyi took it upon himself to denounce this setup. Said he: "The ruling of the Comptroller has put the 'recognized' agencies into a strategic position which may permit them virtually to control the market. The agencies are under no governmental or other supervision . . . are extremely secretive about the technique...