Word: returns
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Suppose you were downtown and you didn't have any money to get home, how would you approach the policeman?-"I'd say, 'Please, Mr. Cop, will you lend me a nickel? I promise to return...
...Haven a week ago provided the clincher, although the Elis needed only a tie in that game to claim the title. In sweeping to their notable triumph they tallied 31 goals to 11 for the opposition, scoring their victories by at least two goals in every game. In their return match with Princeton they routed the Tigers...
Peace came, but more by good luck than good management. The cooperative agreed to return to its wage scale. What brought about the agreement was another windfall: a big pending order for Hancock. Gus Geiges, eyes on the bright horizon, predicted that all 500 owners would be back to work in their plant by April...
...Herr Ribbentrop speeding toward the Italian frontier a wireless operator handed a communique just issued by the British Foreign Office. It read: "The British Government has decided to release 13 ships detained in recent days together with their cargoes of coal. Italian ships which have not already started their return journey with cargoes of coal will leave the ports in which they are at present in ballast (unladen) and no further Italian cargo steamers will be sent subsequently to those ports to load coal." Later came reports that British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax and Italian Ambassador Giuseppe Bastianini...
...Various manufacturers reported they had been approached by persuasive "agents" claiming to have a special in with the Ministry of Supply. Their proposition was to get the manufacturers Government contracts in return for a 3% rake...