Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Full dress suits, in color, minus collar & tie. Better still, an adaptation of the bullfighter's cock-o'-the-walk costume...
...Lourdes bathhouse, a handful of pilgrims are cured of ailments attested incurable by doctors. Fred Snite was neither cured nor disheartened. Said he: "I ask no miracle and do not expect one. I came here to offer my thanks . . . to receive the spiritual strength here to keep on getting better...
...chain, KFAR nevertheless intends to broadcast home-made programs for Alaska's own needs. It will announce airplane arrivals and departures to a people who fly 17 times as much per capita as their fellow citizens in the States. It hopes to teach the sourdough how to make better biscuits, and to school the cheechako (tenderfoot) in the art of mining. It will broadcast four to six news periods...
...then got another $30,000,000 of locomotive business, and $5-10,000,000 of railroad accessory business, thanks to the Government, it would owe the New Deal a handsome bow indeed. Instead of a $1,032,000 loss (1938) it might one of these years turn up with better than $5,000,000 profit...
...Eastern roads were not convinced. They credited better business to recovery not to lower fares. So last July, when facing Depression II, they persuaded ICC to up coach rates to 2½?. Immediate result: New York Central's August revenues dropped 17% from the same month in 1937, B. & O.'s dropped 19.5%, New Haven...