Word: along
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such large discrepancies between income taxes as first paid by large corporations and as finally paid after deduction of refunds and credits. His resolution will be voted on this week when the Deficiency Bill of which it is a part is passed upon. As the House will presumably divide along partisan lines, it is not likely that Mr. Mellon will find himself investigated...
Near Globe, Ariz., is the San Carlos Indian Reservation, where dwells many an Apache Indian. Along the road from the San Carlos Trading Post walked Theresa Reed, school teacher. Suddenly an Indian appeared, seized Miss Reed, beat her. Then, drawing a knife, he began to sever Miss Reed's scalp from her head. Fortunately, the operation was not completed. Screams from the victim attracted white men from the trading post. At their approach, the Indian ran, escaped. Later the Reservation Apaches were rounded up, three men arrested and paraded past the teacher's hospital bed, but she failed...
...lorry lumbered along a street in Flatbush, (residential) Brooklyn. It was packed tight with brick. On its side was the dusty legend. GREINER CONTRACTING CO., INC. A child screamed. A few hours later surgeons amputated what was left of her crushed left leg. Lorries of the Greiner company continued to haul brick through Brooklyn streets. Bricklayers continued to slap their trowels for the Audley Clarke Co., which had contracted with the Greiner company for the delivery of the brick. This was seven years...
When cabled to Berlin, these guarded words were featured by the press, along with a report just issued by Commercial Attache of the U. S. Embassy F. W. Allport. With a pessimism which delighted Germans, Attache Allport lugubriously observed that: 1) The number of German unemployed has increased during the past month from 671,000 to 1,030,000, making 70% more out-of-work than in 1927; and 2) "The five weeks shut down in the steel industry, which came to an end early in December, caused serious dislocations in the iron, steel, coal and coke trades...
Bridge was played, innumerable cigarets were smoked. One motor began spurting oil. Sergeant Roy Hooe pussyfooted along the slim runway leading to the spewing machine, did some windy tinkering. Capt. Ira Eaker, at the joy stick, wore a haggard grin. He headed back toward Los Angeles. The day was sunny, the fog had drifted away. The fourth day, the eighty-seventh hour passed. Had the five flown directly eastward the same distance from their starting point they would have been winging over Europe...