Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...materials, Chinese firebugs heroically raised an immense pall of smoke over Chapei beneath which the Chinese defenders executed in the night what foreign military experts in Shanghai called one of the most orderly and efficient retreats ever made in Oriental warfare. Stimulating to morale throughout China was the staying behind in a Chapei warehouse of 500 Chinese troops of "Chiang's Own"-the famed 88th Division of Chinese Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Japanese troops, advancing at sunrise under their Empire's Rising Sun flag, soon had the warehouse surrounded on three sides, the fourth being toward the British...
...Lifetime or Boy Meets Girl, but a panel of broad, sure dimensions. It shows the bottom as well as the top, emphasizing that the vast army of skilled film technicians, the grips and pincers, the cutters and carpenters, are more pertinent to picture production than the overpublicized screwballs behind the big desks. Much of Stand-in's authentic atmosphere and crisp character delineation is due to the directing of Tay Garnett, much of it to the writing of Gene Towne and Graham Baker, who have developed Clarence Budington Kelland's story into a personal triumph of their...
...York Stock Exchange installed a high-speed ticker service of N. Y. Quotation Co. The new tickers printed 500 characters a minute instead of the 300 characters of earlier machines. To the despair and confusion of brokers and speculators, however, tickers still run far behind the market whenever trading waxes fast & furious. Last week, for example, the ticker was several minutes late on four days. One mad day fortnight ago it fell 22 minutes behind, leaving traders groping in a mist of uncertainty. Last week the Stock Exchange fathered a new scheme to help keep traders up-to-the-minute...
Beginning November 1, whenever the ticker gets five minutes behind, latest floor prices of 16 major stocks will be given precedence on the ticker, one at a time, every 30 seconds, each preceded by the word FLASH. These up-to-date figures sprinkled through the bulk of late statistics are supposed to give traders an inkling of the market's trend. The 16 FLASH issues: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; American Telephone & Telegraph; Anaconda Copper; Chrysler; Sears, Roebuck; Great Northern (preferred); Consolidated Edison; Republic Steel; General Motors; Standard Oil of N. J.; General Electric; N. Y. Central; Electric Power & Light...
...Titonka, Iowa, Mrs. Will Schutjer turned Daughter Patty, 4, over her knee. As her mother's hand fell, Patty held a can opener behind her. Mrs. Schutjer's hand was punctured...