Word: better
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Actually most of France's industrial recovery can be attributed to rearmament and to slightly better business conditions throughout the world. Unemployment in France increased by 53,000 from October to February. Foxy Paul Reynaud boasted: "That amid the international events of the past few months France has been able to rebuild and increase her forces proves beyond a doubt the robustness of her economic organism, the solidity of her social structure, and the suppleness of her institutions." A more dispassionate judgment was the London Economist's which saw in Paul Reynaud's recovery no vindication...
Leave It to Me. Victor Moore, never better, in a musical that is better than most (TIME...
William Lyon Phelps told a Booksellers Association luncheon: "Let children read a lot of trash. And by tact and sympathy they can be led to read better books. Don't try to stuff books down their throats...
Glenn's father liked it better when the Martins moved to Santa Ana, Calif, and Glenn began making $3,000 to $4,000 a year selling Fords and Maxwells. When Glenn began making gliders in his garage, Father Martin's eyebrows raised. When Glenn rented an abandoned Methodist church, locked the doors, painted the windows and, with a whittled propeller and a Ford Model N motor, began to construct an airplane, his alarmed father thought Glenn had taken leave of his senses...
...while most of the other fliers just flew, Glenn Martin barnstormed to find out how to make better flying machines. Almost as soon as he learned to fly he began manufacturing planes in Santa Ana. He opened a factory in Los Angeles in 1912, from which he sold planes to the U. S. Army, still one of his best customers. For seven years, sobersided Martin, half pilot, half industrialist, whizzed around the country, flying to finance manufacturing...