Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frequently these animals go down to their accustomed drinking places and break the thin ice at the edge to get a drink-occasionally one will get beyond the sure footing of the bank to a very smooth place where his sharp hoofs get no purchase. Then the boys have to get a rope to help him out, or scatter straw or leaves so he can help himself. It has happened that his struggles have carried him further and further from land; thoroughly exhausted by his labors, he is found frozen to death...
...injunction against Texas, Governor Murray fortnight ago ordered his highway workers to clear away the free bridge's barricades and plow up all approaches to the toll bridge. Incensed, Governor Sterling dispatched his Rangers to the Texas bridge head, curtly informed Governor Murray: "You have exceeded your jurisdiction beyond all reason." Replied Governor Murray: "I bow to your authority over the State of Texas. You could probably muster more manpower than I could in case...
...expedition, sponsored by the International Society for the Exploration of the Arctic by means of Aircraft (abbreviation: Aero-Arctic) has a threefold purpose: 1) search for new land beyond Novaya Zemlya, hitherto unexplored; 2) study Arctic meteorology for its effect on weather the world over; 3) study ice conditions for their effect on oceanography in the northern hemisphere...
Immediately affected by the moratorium were British and U. S, holders of Chilean bonds. Some $2,040,000 that should have been paid them in interest last week was deposited in Santiago banks to bolster the Government's local credit. But U. S. interest in Chile goes far beyond the holding of Government bonds. According to the U. S. Department of Commerce, in 1929 U. S. direct investments in Chile totalled $442,000,000. Most important companies were Baldwin Locomotive Works; Wright Aeronautical Corp., having local factories; All America Cables, which beside its cable business operates the local telephone...
...work well, is now needed by National City to jack up another one of its client companies. The other possibility was that National City may be retiring as Remington Rand's most prominent banking sponsor. For just as Chairman-President James H. Rand Jr. has built far beyond his father's original business, so has his cousin George F. Rand Jr. succeeded and surpassed his father and is now the alert president of aggressive Marine Midland Corp., holding company for 18 New York State banks...