Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been caught in the 1920-21 sugar deflation. National City had formed General Sugars, Inc., to take and operate over 3,250,000 acres, a $30,000,000 investment. To the United States Sugar Association's low-duty lobby fund, Mr. Rentschler's bank had contributed $10,000, had spent $200,000 per year on monthly propaganda sent to 300,000 persons...
Free at last of all charges growing out of the 1922 oil scandals, Oilman Sinclair spent the night in Washington, motored next day to seclusion on his Rancocas stock farm at Jobstown...
...added appropriation was spent for 275 extra agents. What they did puzzled Senators because the report showed that since April i, 1929, there have been fewer arrests, fewer prosecutions, fewer stills and less malt liquor seized than during the corresponding period last year. Only the seizure of spirits increased in quantity. Also, importation of liquor from Canada, averaging around 500,000 gals, per month in the summer of 1928, was reported halved...
...Fifty billion was announced by French statisticians as the grand total of francs spent by U. S. citizens in France since the War. Last year they spent between nine and ten billion francs...
...learned from Stillman Infirmary that, Harding spent a comfortable day and was rapidly improving. His condition is critical and will remain so for a day or two but a rapid recovery is forecast...