Word: begin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know when they begin these negotiations how far they eventually can and will go. They usually could clear up the real issues in a couple of hours, but it has gotten to be a habit to talk for days and sometimes weeks. ... I may be wrong, but it's a good bet that nothing like that will attend the meetings of Walter Chrysler and John Lewis. They are too much alike in plain barnyard common sense...
This week Britain will take another hitch in the communications belt of her farflung Empire when, for no extra charge, all first-class mail between the colonies and the mother country will begin to be carried by air. Exception is Canada, no scheduled North Atlantic service yet being in effect. To haul the estimated 20 tons of mail which will leave London each week, Imperial Airways, long equipped with huge old rattletraps, has acquired a fleet of 28 Short Brothers four-motored flying boats. Last week the Empire's great new airmail network hit a snag before it could...
...through Congress it will stick on the statute books. The roads were willing to do so because the new plan provides that 1) some $50,000,000 of taxes which are due under the second law will never be collected; 2) the taxes proposed under the new plan will begin by costing the railroads $20.000,000 less per year than those of the present law; 3) the Federal Government, in, return for the taxes to be imposed, will assume the burden of the railroads' existing private pension systems, paying these pensions up to a maximum of $120 a month...
These military preparations, so newshawks in China assume, are for a new Japanese attack upon Suiyan which must be conquered before Japanese militarists can begin to draw their projected iron ring around Russia's Outer Mongolia. Tokyo's bland explanation of Mongokuo's piled-up tanks and planes was lately voiced by a member of Japan's Foreign Office: "The Mongols are striving to preserve themselves from Communists against whom they are preparing for a war of self-defense." Overlooked by the Tokyo spokesman was the fact that the nearest Chinese Communist army was 400 miles...
Connoisseurs of such Catholic Passion Plays as the Union City production would have noticed several striking differences at Zion. To begin with, Zion's Passion Play is not strictly a Passion Play, i. e., it does not concern itself solely with the agony and death of Christ, but is a sort of theatrical biography of The Savior, beginning with the Sermon on the Mount and concluding, unconventionally, with the spectacular, if mechanically precarious Ascension. Mary, Mother of Jesus, instead of being young and comely, is white-haired, stout and comely as played by Blanche Kessler, telephone operator...