Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Herbert H. Lehman the idea of stamping along the bottom of all 1938 automobile license plates the phrase NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR 1939. Other States had done the same sort of thing. VACATIONLAND was once stamped on Maine's plates. South Carolina motorists advertised THE IODINE PRODUCTS STATE. Californians carried the talisman THE GOLDEN STATE. In the New York Legislature the necessary bill was unanimously passed and "World's Fair'' plates were issued. But for a fortnight, fastidious New York car-owners, bolting on new plates, have wondered. That they should be asked...
...opportunity: "Parents labor and save to provide formal educations for their children and when that education is finished there is no place for the boy or girl to go except to start at the bottom of an impossibly long ladder of a few great corporations dominated by America's 60 families...
...mute, wide-eyed. Most of them were seeing for the first time U. S. sailors wounded in deadly earnest, U. S. gunners firing at something besides war game targets, alien waters closing over the U. S. colors as a U. S. manofwar, however unseagoing, sank to the 180-ft. bottom of the broad Yangtze...
...peaks around them. They attempted to turn back. Then, eyewitnesses said, the three planes seemed to be blown together; there was a violent crash as they momentarily interlocked, a burst of flame. Like two stones the Santa Maria and Pinta fell to earth, crashed side by side in the bottom of a shallow creek. On fire, the Nina struggled a few seconds, crashed a few hundred yards from its companions. All seven occupants of the three planes were instantly killed, those in the Nina burned beyond recognition...
...Father often said he felt at a disadvantage for having started in newspaper work at the top and wanted me to start at the bottom." When George Barry Bingham graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, he traveled two years, did a stint at Bingham radio station WHAS, then went humbly to work as police reporter on his father's Louisville Courier-Journal and Times. By the time Publisher Bingham became Ambassador to England in 1933, Barry Bingham was well on the way to the co-publishership he earned in 1935. Last week 31-year-old Barry Bingham, the late...