Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dropped 50% to 4,000,000 tons a year since 1919, trucking to & from the city had zoomed to the point where trucks were hauling two tons of freight to the railroads' one. So serious was this turnabout that the Authority warned motor carriers that they had better build big motortruck terminals in order to cut operating costs and reduce traffic congestion...
...Suave William Powell made a better raffish detective-husband than a romantic lover...
...Exotic Myrna Loy made a better wife than a siren...
...Gallagher-American Storm Trooper. Mari Sandoz's third book, Capital City (Little, Brown, $2.50), lacks even a credible character. A panoramic, pamphlet-pat story of imminent fascism in a Midwest State capital, it is little more than a leftwing city guide, mainly suggests that Author Sandoz writes much better about such intimate subjects as her father (Old Jules...
Michael Beam-Richard Matthews Hallet-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). As in many another recent frontier romance, Michael Beam likes Indians better and his creator writes more cautiously than used to be the case...