Word: carriere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sharp distinction should be made between the carrier and the "newsie." The newsie, an "independent merchant," hawks his papers at all hours on the street, is subject to physical and moral evil. States and municipalities could oversee him. but hardly any city does an effective job of it. The carrier of morning papers is also a problem, when he is a 10-year-old, getting out of bed at 3 a.m. to serve his route. In contrast, there is little to be said against boys acting as carriers of afternoon papers in residential districts, and much in favor...
...John K. Ottley of the First National Bank identified two boys who had seized, later released him fortnight ago on his way to work (TIME, July 17). Three men were arrested as they lay in wait for another banker, Cecil C. Vaughan, near Franklin, Va. John C. Lyle, mail carrier of Crawfordsville, Ga., was kidnapped by three escaping convicts, driven in his own car to Wake Forest, N. C., freed. A St. Paul physician named Walter H. Hedberg said he was shot through the ear, beaten, drugged, left in his car in the path of a train when he refused...
...from Rome some years ago by the American Farm School on the outskirts of Salonica, to combat malaria. deadly scourge of Macedonia and all the Near East? The undrained swamps and ubiquitous containers for conserving the scant rainfall create breeding places for the anopheles mosquito which is the disease carrier. The School now propagates gambusia and each year plants large numbers of them where the)7 will do the most good by eating the larvae of the mosquito. Thanks to their energetic measures, malaria has practically been stamped out in the environs of the School, and propaganda spread by graduates...
During the week the Japanese aircraft carrier Kamoi anchored off Taku, only 37 mi. from Tientsin. Swarms of fighting planes took off to reconnoitre. Town after town fell before the Japanese advance. Chinese commanders could do little but make brave statements. Cried Premier Wang Ching-wei of the Nationalist Government...
...jawed Captain Ernest J. King, 54. father of six daughters and a son, qualified as a Naval Aviator (pilot) in 1927, has since successively commanded the Scouting Fleet's Aircraft Squadrons, been assistant chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, commanded the Hampton Roads Naval Air Station, the aircraft carrier Lexington. His appointment was doubly important to Naval aviation in view of the President's determination to dispense with the services of an Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. But flying Captain Kingachieved fame on the bottom of the sea. When the S-51 went down in 132ft...