Word: beene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A modern Kubla Khan, John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1930 a cluster of skyscrapers decreed. Never had such a cluster been decreed before. Between elegant Fifth Avenue and shoddy Sixth in the next nine years, 14 slab-sided tombstones uprose. Last week, wearing a pair of workman's white...
Into this sorry mess stepped Michigan's senile, godly, sometimes cunning Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson. To Lansing he summoned Chrysler's President K. T. Keller and Vice President Herman Weckler, the C. I. O. United Automobile Workers' President Roland Jay Thomas, Richard Frankensteen, et al. No strong...
In 1935 Communists the world over, including those in the U. S., took a raincheck on revolution. Object: by joining a "united front" for capitalist democracy, to make the democracies allies of Soviet Russia against Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Imperialist Japan. Last week world Communists, including those in the...
Japan's little Premier, Nobuyuki Abe, is a definition of inconsistency. His breakfast begins by being Japanese (bean soup, pickled eggplant, rice) and ends Occidentally (soft-boiled eggs, a glass of milk). His house (suburban, neither big nor small) is typically that of a Japanese military man, but is...
There are only two airlines in the world which cancel flights when the weather is too good. They are both in China-Eurasia Aviation Corp. (partly German-owned) and China National Aviation Corp. (partly owned by Pan American Airways)-and the reason for their idiosyncrasy is that their courses lie...