Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more: instead of paying the bill he persuaded a caravaneer to pay it with a bum check. Only after the hotel had detained them both two days did Promoter Rose come across with the money. Undaunted by the tribulations of the 1938 trip, when it was ended Promoter Rose began drumming up trade for his 1939 season. He had already collected $4,930 from prospective caravaneers ("My bird dogs"), when the ICC opened its investigation. To inquiries into a 20-cent-a-day-per-person food allowance, Promoter Rose blandly explained: "Some times we get a little something added...
...shock. There was no selling panic, no steep drop in prices. The Dow-Jones industrial average of 30 industrial stocks which had dropped almost 7 points to 135.11 in the week ending August 19 oscillated without great excitement. Its low was 133.31 on August 24. Then it began to climb as war became a virtual certainty...
Other correspondents may be lucky enough to send such stories of this war, but it is not likely, for, 24 hours after war began last week, censorship had clamped down over Europe. In Berlin the Army Command announced that no foreign correspondents would be allowed to stay at the front and that all those now in military areas must leave. War communiqués would be issued once a day. From time to time groups of correspondents would be taken "wherever activities were especially interesting." Berlin censored all dispatches, but correspondents reported no evidence that they had been suppressed...
Paris has a theoretical censorship, even in peacetime. Last week this censorship began to function actively, but dispatches came through with fair speed...
...London, the day war began, censors walked into the Communications Office and took possession. Telephone service beyond the British Isles was suspended. Since formerly news from Europe to the U. S. cleared through London, this meant the imposition of British censorship over nearly all war news. As the censorship began to delay dispatches, the Associated Press and United Press ordered their correspondents on the Continent to file their stories directly to New York, but even then they were hours late. By the fourth day of the war virtually nothing was known of its military progress, and it looked...