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Word: centrals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years of life," rasped the veteran Virginian, "have I known or heard of a more humiliating spectacle than that presented by the legislative body of a great, rich and powerful nation spending months in devising expedients to contravene immemorial requirements of international law through positive fear of a Central European assassin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Old South | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Principal surprise was that when gross operating revenue humped sharply (18.3%) since last year, expenses were kept down so well that nearly all of the increase in revenue was brought down to net operating income. Typical of this policy was New York Central, whose gross jumped $5,900,000 (from $25,800,000 to $31,700,000) compared with September 1938, while its net operating income jumped $4,100,000 (from $2,200,000 to $6,300,000). On the other hand Pennsylvania, which in September was already hard at work repairing down-at-heel freight cars (such repairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Earnings | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Jack H. James of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Central High School; Weld Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twelve Freshmen Selected For '43 Union Committee; Will Run Class Events, Union Activities | 11/1/1939 | See Source »

...last week Miss Sally Bright, a deputy U. S. marshal at Raleigh, had a safe and simple chore to do at North Carolina's Central Prison. She subpoenaed Prisoner No. 34,722 to testify before the Dies Committee in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Proletarian Detour | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...week in Scapa Flow at almost the exact spot near the Calves (rocks) of Cava where Reuter's ships went down. Four days after Prien's U-boat raid, Nazi planes in five waves swept over the Flow plunking bombs. They approached from the north over the central port of Kirkwall, where 60 neutral ships waiting to be searched for contraband saw them, and from the south over Duncansby Head and John O'Groat's, where British fighters engaged them. Two of their bombs hit close to Iron Duke, damaging but not sinking her. British fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Scapa & Forth | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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