Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since the war in China started six weeks ago, Franklin Roosevelt has been embarrassed by the fact that, until war was declared, he could scarcely apply the Neutrality Act without making a bad situation worse. Last week's embargo appeared to bear the same relation to an official application of the Neutrality Act that the Sino-Japanese conflict bears to a declared...
...three brass bands. All guests sported gaudy paper hats and the Governors wore huge paper-plate buttons identifying them as their State's "big shot" (see cut). Connecticut's 75-year-old Wilbur ("Uncle Toby") Cross beamed on a pretty "gypsy girl," who escorted a "polar bear" on a leash. When a "monkey" beat up a "lion," Maine's Barrows observed dryly: "We always handle Democrats that way." South Carolina's Johnston danced with Host Hoffman's secretary. Utah's Blood was attentive to the wife of North Carolina's Hoey. Neither...
TIME herewith accepts Anthropologist White's correction. Henceforth when two things or people bear a close resemblance, TIME will bear in mind the corrected phrase spit-&-image...
...paper, and he merged it with the Toronto Globe (85,000) which he had bought for just under $900,000. Today another $4,000,000 is being spent on "journalistic improvements" and to run a skyscraper in Toronto to house the combined Globe and Mail. This building is to bear the name of Old Prospector Wright...
...railroad situation since government operation during the War. Railroad men generally believe that it is impossible to rearrange the rate schedule on the basis solely of operation costs because these vary strikingly in different territories. And some railroaders assert that the traffic may not be willing to bear a sizable rate rise. In any case, as a whole the U. S. railroads are desperately in need of more net income, although last year, after deduction of $500,000,000 fixed charges it amounted to $164,0130,000, a gain of 200% over 1935. This was due largely...