Word: used
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Surplus Commodity Corp. got authority from Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to use its new $79,000,000 appropriation at once to buy surpluses of oranges, vegetables, peaches, flour, cereal products, to feed 2,000,000 needy families...
...some 23 well-wishers who had volunteered contributions to his expenses, embattled Dr. Morgan last week addressed letters saying he could use more money. Said he: ". . . Contributions are not desired from power companies or their officials, or from persons or companies which have personal or private issues with...
...severely bombed last week, then across country to the vital Canton-Hankow rail-line. A more direct route lies straight up the Yangtze, although this means fighting along a stream well blocked with booms and flanked by mountains pitted with Chinese gun emplacements. An indication that the Japanese will use this route came last week as they requested all foreign vessels, including U. S. and British gunboats at Kiukiang, to evacuate the area...
...years ago Engineer Hogan and his partner, bespectacled General Manager Elliott Maxwell Sanger, decided to put their station on a commercial basis, invited a limited number of sponsors to advertise. Only products personally approved by Engineer Hogan himself are permitted the use of his air waves, and their announcements are held to a strict standard of dignity and terseness. Typical sponsors have included Random House, the Oxford University Press, the Theatre Guild. Martinson's Coffee, the American Tobacco Co. One of them, the Book-of-the-Month Club, apologizes for taking up the listeners' valuable time. Despite these...
...Agreed to lend $5,800,000 through RFC to help eliminate competition between private utilities and Government power projects. Knoxville, Tenn. will use the money, first such RFC loan, to purchase the local power system of Tennessee Public Service Co. as arranged six weeks ago (TIME...