Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Williamsport, Pa., then to the middle of the southern Tennessee border, then back to Canton. Within that wedge lies the great eastern bituminous coal field. Mark off the central third of the wedge: the southwest corner of Pennsylvania, the northern spike of West Virginia, a narrow strip that lies beyond the Ohio River in Ohio. If you drive fast, your car will take you across that country in five hours. It is "The Pittsburgh Area." the richest bituminous deposit in the world, whence comes one-fifth (some 100,000,000 tons a year) of the nation's soft coal...
...capacity under normal conditions of the debtor to pay, we should be consistent with our own policies and principles if we take into account the abnormal situation now existing in the world. I am sure the American people have no desire to attempt to extract any sum beyond the capacity of any debtor to pay, and it is our view that broad vision requires that our Government should recognize the situation as it exists. ... It represents our willingness to make a contribution to the early restoration of world prosperity, in which our own people have so deep an interest...
...potential summer resort. The President, they claimed, had given the region priceless advertising and had put in an 8 mi. road worth $200,000. and power and telephone lines worth another $100,000. They insisted that the presidential improvements enlarged the value of their timber land far beyond what Virginia was ready...
...years ago a high-school instructor named John Thomas Scopes ambled into the drugstore at Dayton. Tenn. There he met his friend George W. Rappelyea, chemist and coal man. Outside a rickety old Ford rattled down the dusty main street of the village (pop. 1705). The Cumberland hills beyond drew a green circle around Dayton's early summer stagnation. Perched on soda fountain stools, Rappelyea and Scopes discussed the State's month-old law against teaching evolution. They both believed in the theory, loudly agreed the new statute was ''damn nonsense." Lounging oldsters pricked up their...
...Sophistication. That the cool glitter of an intelligence, added to patrician beauty, should have won her such immense and protracted popularity has suggested a fact which Hollywood might not otherwise have discovered: that if the talkies have not created a new cinema public, they have changed the old one beyond recognition...