Word: buys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conference fight with the Senate to limit to $61,500,000 (instead of $100,000,000) the new bond issues authorized for TVA to buy private utility properties. The House gave up a provision restricting TVA's operations to the Tennessee River's watershed, but achieved the same limitation for the time being by earmarking all the new money for specific purchases, thus requiring TVA to apply to Congress again before starting any more projects. The bill went to the President...
...Manhattan's Chinatown, eminent Chinese, art lovers, sympathizers gathered in Lichee Wan's Restaurant to pay respects to an aging and ailing little thin-bearded man with a quick smile, bright eyes and fleet gestures-Chang Shan-tse of Chungking. His mission: to raise money to buy medical supplies for beleaguered China. In a garret studio, from 6 a. m. until nightfall he could be found feverishly painting $$o-up duplicates of water colors whose originals had brought $1,500 in China. Their soft mauves, greens and umbers, their economically limned designs of rocky landscapes, animals and religious...
Walt Disney, as might have been expected, immediately offered to buy the exclusive Sonovox rights for cinema cartoons. Perhaps in the future Donald Duck will utter his irate comments in a real quacking duck's voice...
...Polish loan would amount to $200,000,000), but Rumania, Turkey, Greece and Egypt are also expected to share. Almost all the money, which will be lent through the Board of Trade, the British equivalent of the U. S. Department of Commerce will be spent in Britain to buy munitions, raw materials, war supplies. About $30,000,000 can be used to buy goods that Britain has imported and is willing to reexport. The bill is expected to pass Parliament this week. The British did not try to disguise the projected loans as anything but political. The Nazi official news...
...invoke Thy wrath upon reprobate men who come to this city to corrupt public officials, buy and sell legislation and traffic in the honor of government. We invoke Thy wrath upon little men in large places who stoop to canny shrewdness to thwart the people's will and reduce the business of public affairs to mistrust and contempt...