Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disciple should. Chancellor Hitler drew back to let the world's No. i Fascist enter the launch first, but II Capo del Governo again threw his arm around Guest Hitler's shoulders, urged him forward in Italian: "Prego!" ("I beg you!"). With a dozen police motorboats roaring ahead to chase away jay-rowing gondolas, the official launch sped for Venice between two squadrons of Italian war boats which thundered salutes. -"Get into your rooms!" bellowed the German detectives at the Grand Hotel. "Into your rooms!" and they shoved several irate guests into rooms to clear all halls...
...again those two-man talks in German. Baffled correspondents were reduced to cooking up tales that Hitler and Mussolini were playing a game of vanity in keeping each other waiting at their public appearances. These stories started when Der Führer left the Grand Hotel ten minutes ahead of schedule for a review of Fascist Militia in the square facing St. Mark's. With no military escort, the smudge-mustached Chancellor in his nondescript business suit was half way across the square before a young woman squealed "Hitler!" Ten minutes later II Duce marched in on schedule...
...witnessed the unexpected fall of another world mark. Stanford's Ben Eastman, who set a world's half-mile record two years ago, ran his race agains Charles Hornbostel of Indiana, who hai equaled Eastman's time last year. East man was away first, 8 yd. ahead at the first turn of the last lap. Hornbostel cut it down to 4 yd. and then dropped back a yard as Eastman, running with all his oldtime smoothness, whisked across the finish. Eastman's time, a full second faster than anyone has ever run a clocked half mile...
...business with a few pounds of sugar and a kettle. Before the War candy was primarily for children. War made the armies crave the quick-burning carbohydrates of candy which their governments did not supply. After the War candy became a $400,000,000 industry, with only 47 others ahead of it in size and importance. Last week the National Confectioners Association, reshuffled by Depression and reunited by an NRA code, met in convention in Manhattan and announced that candy sales for 1934's first four months were 28% better than in 1933. U. S. citizens were again eating...
...days when one can follow his own fancy as long as the Committee of Vigilantes at University Hall does not object, are over. The idealism, which this brief interlude broods in most of its participants, soon will be crumbling away under the strain of supporting families and getting ahead in chosen occupations...