Word: awayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minneapolis, moon-faced Merle Potter, dramatic critic of the Times-Tribune, went to review Tobacco Road, came away fuming. Next morning he blasted Actor John Barton across the Mississippi for turning dirty, hungry Jeeter Lester into an "obscene clown," the theatre into a bawditorium...
...backstretch Kayak caught him, poked his brown nose farther & farther ahead as they streaked along against a backdrop of autumn foliage. As they rounded into the homestretch, Jockey Eddie Arcaro flipped his whip and Challedon began to run like a Halloween hooligan. He inched past Kayak and won going away, a half length in front at the wire...
...Chilean ore-at Sparrows Point, Md. Bethlehem Steel takes ores in from Cruz Grande, Chile (4,265 miles away) at a freight cost of $2.50 to $3.00 per ton, plus Panama Canal tolls of $7.20; since no toll need be paid on Chilean ore laid down in Portland (5,739 miles from Cruz Grande), it should be cheaper there...
...newcomers: big United Shoe Machinery Corp. (assets: $124,468,000), formerly of Paterson, and Montana Power Co. (assets: $152,093,000), formerly of Newark. What their arrival would do to the dwindling property tax rate (now 81?; town 8?) Flemingtonians could only guess. Maybe the town tax would melt away altogether. Busily turning their new-found tax savings into fresh coats of paint; landscaping, new roofs, etc., the town was rewarded for not being tax greedy. For Flemington's tax rate was 31? below any other New Jersey municipality-and still going down...
...Year (20th Century-Fox). Fainthearts who swoon on Ferris wheels and feel dizzy when an elevator drops should keep away from this power dive into the problems of training college boys to be airmen. With the nonchalance of a parachute jumper, the picture unfolds the suggestion that if 20,000 young aviators are to be trained yearly, there will be thrills for both students and instructors. 20,000 Men A Year shows most of the thrills...