Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canada, many a first-grade moppet began the term without textbooks, for the books they were to have used went down with the Athenia...
Closed during the evacuation, Britain's rural schools began to reopen last week. By running school houses on double shifts, using village halls, taking pupils on field trips, Britain's teachers, who had efficiently supervised the evacuation, hoped to give their children as good an education as ever...
...materials manufacturers, who will have to buy billions of dollars of new machinery if sustained war business materializes, were still wary about tying cash up in fixed plant except where old machinery would not do. Nor was the export boom, that has been expected ever since the armament race began five years ago, any more evident than in the past. As Cartoonist Herb Block allegorized (see cut), a war boom is not the best foundation for prosperity...
...second week, and that was all hundreds of U. S. businessmen wanted to know. They began buying everything in sight, lest belligerent Europe or the U. S. Army & Navy beat them to it. Business' race-track class blindly bought stocks; its carriage trade bought durable goods. Some of the carriage trade's most notable shopping...
...Railroads, which in recent years have been employing fewer men than even in 1931, began to show signs of rehiring. Pennsylvania put 1,560 to work, Louisville & Nashville 650, Pittsburgh & Lake Erie 200. In the Pittsburgh area alone, 1,800 furloughed employes were recalled to handle steel and coal shipments. B. & 0. recalled 800 men for repairing and building cars & locomotives. Pennsylvania estimated that it would require 4,000 more men to repair freight cars, 2,000,000 man-hours of work on passenger cars, locomotives and new freight cars...