Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week's set to over newsphoto supremacy in the pages of Editor & Publisher was generally considered only a mild prelude to the cut-throat battle ahead, if and when AP's telephoto service opens fire...
Also appeared last week clear evidence that the public is spending money. Retail trade in August exceeded estimates, was last week in some places running as high as 45% ahead of last year. Cinema attendance was running as much as 15% above a year ago. Manhattan hotel trade in August topped the same month...
...prophecies of Major L. L. B. ("Coming American Boom'') Angas, nor a blast of optimism from Propheteer Roger Babson, nor the fact that the American Federation of Labor plumped for the profit system, nor the universal pessimism of brokers' market letters-sure sign of better times ahead-could prevent the stockmarket from going down, down...
...setting up his son in business. So Mr. Norton was largely responsible for Continental's beginnings. Several American Can executives went over to Continental bringing with them the account of Campbell Soup, now the world's largest user of tin cans. And by 1921 Continental ranked far ahead of all other can makers except American...
...Erdman had not come down with parrot fever, which looked like hexerei, if Herman had not found his mother's little hexing book, he might not have gone on to covet Erdman's wife as well. Imagining himself at last a full-fledged hexer, Herman went deviously ahead to get the things he wanted. With Erdman dead, Herman got his land, but Erdman's wife killed herself from fear of the hexer. Herman found himself condemned to spend the rest of his life with a woman who knew all about it but would never speak...