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... hundred dollars in paper money . Then with this fifteen hundred dollars he could buy an equiva- lent amount of six per cent gold bonds . The fifteen hundred dollars in bonds would bring him ninety dollars a year in interest , or nine ...
... hundred dollars in paper money . Then with this fifteen hundred dollars he could buy an equiva- lent amount of six per cent gold bonds . The fifteen hundred dollars in bonds would bring him ninety dollars a year in interest , or nine ...
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... hundred dollars . This arrangement for evading service by the payment of money to the government was heartily resented by workingmen and others to whom three hundred dollars was a large or impossible sum . It was , in truth , a bare ...
... hundred dollars . This arrangement for evading service by the payment of money to the government was heartily resented by workingmen and others to whom three hundred dollars was a large or impossible sum . It was , in truth , a bare ...
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... hundred thousand dollars . " Buck " had already invested one hundred thousand - prob- ably his father - in - law's money - and it was decided that the General should put in a hundred thousand more . Ward agreed to take two hundred ...
... hundred thousand dollars . " Buck " had already invested one hundred thousand - prob- ably his father - in - law's money - and it was decided that the General should put in a hundred thousand more . Ward agreed to take two hundred ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FAntasies | 25 |
THE UNWILLING Soldier | 38 |
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