Word: waited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Mrs. Borden announced her engagement she said that the wedding must wait until $100,000 had been raised by Chicago's newly-organized Friends of Music who intend to build an outdoor Temple of Music for the World's Fair (TIME, Dec. 26). Donations came in so slowly that she asked her friends to give her wedding presents in cash, which she would use to hire a professional money-campaigner. Campaigner John McKeown, advised by his brother Mitchell McKeown, managing director of Chicago's Unemployment Fund, was hard at work for the Friends last week...
...high, 500,000 New York Central shares would have cost D. & H. $125,000,000. At Depression figures Mr. Loree picked them up through J. P. Morgan & Co. for $10.000,000. With the leverage that a 20% interest gives him, he would not have to wait long to fit little D. & H. into New York Central's big system, if that is his intention. The fact that Central owes some $80,000,000 to banks and the R. F. C. did not seem to bother him at all last week...
...What about my posture? Wait a minute until I cock myself...
Balancing the chance to provide thousands of jobs to unemployed against draining several million marks from the city treasury, Mayor Sahm issued calls to city department heads last week for a great conference to decide whether to wait for more damage suits or to start at once replacing Berlin's 70,000,000 sq. feet of asphalt...
Some time or other the Five-Year Plan, launched Oct. 1, 1928. had to end. Impatient Russians could not wait for Oct. i. 1933 so the State coined a slogan: "The Five-Year Plan In Four Years!" But Oct. i, 1932 called for a pace which proved too fast. Arbitrarily last year J. Stalin & Comrades set New Year's Eve last week as the Plan's official deadline. It passed quietly...