Word: carriere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Early this year City Editor Amster Spiro of the Journal saw in Editor & Publisher how Japanese newspapers use carrier pigeons. Promptly he bought eight pairs of pigeons from the U. S. Army, bred & trained them under an oldtime Army expert...
...Milwaukee Journal; after long illness; in Milwaukee. Managing editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel before he was 21, he bought the Journal in 1882, put it on the streets as Wisconsin's first 2? daily. He introduced the first linotype to Milwaukee, scooped his rivals by using carrier pigeons in covering local events (see p. 42). His paper won the 1918 Pulitzer Prize for its campaign against German propaganda. Once a bitter foe of big business, Publisher Nieman mellowed as his paper grew rich (1929 profits: $1.600.000). finally became an opponent of the La Follette brothers...
...creditors were never really worried about getting their money back, though deficits have been a Central rule since 1932. The problem is the carrier's, not its creditors'. But a possible solution developed hot correspondence between hard-hitting Jesse Holman Jones, RFChairman, and hard-hitting Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt, executive committee chairman of New York Central...
...damage, flailing a Japanese flotilla maneuvering off the east coast of Honshu, the Empire's largest island. The furious spiral of wind and water swept 27 officers & men off the destroyer Yugiri, 24 off the destroyer Hatsuyuki and one off the broad deck of the aircraft carrier Hosho. All were lost. Tersely adding up, Japan's Navy Office swelled the list with a final Japanese sailor who "was killed" aboard the destroyer Mutsuki last week, bringing to 60 deaths the price of this year's naval games...
...amazing thing. Malta, traditionally Britain's "Key to the Mediterranean." had become last week an inviting naval keyhole. In fear of Italian bombing planes, the big British ships normally based at Malta had withdrawn to Egyptian and Syrian waters, leaving in the keyhole only a British aircraft carrier, its complement of battle planes and a few-light destroyers as the best weapons to be left there...