Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Took half ($22,035,000) of her scrap iron sold last year and, in the first five 1939 months, $45,710,000 worth of oil and gasoline, copper and machinery, autos, trucks and parts...
...artist admitted himself that he had palled around with real live U. S. gangsters. This appalling state of affairs came about because she had been too busy to go out to Chelsea and look at the paintings beforehand, and the artist "was so smooth and persuasive that I took a chance. When I came to the gallery and saw what was being hung, I just stood there gasping...
...farmers took in $990,000,000 gross income from chicken and eggs. Most of it went into the farmer's wife's china teapot...
...Took 80.4% of her raw silk exports ($83,651,000 worth last year...
Tycoons last week took turns reporting to stockholders on the state of their businesses during the first half of A.D. 1939. Most of them were able to tell a fairly cheerful story by comparing the mediocre first half of 1939 with the terrible first half of 1938. But those businessmen who hope great things for the second half of 1939 hung most on the words of steel industry, both of whose two big units last week reported...