Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...felt that congratulations are due LIFE upon its performance in more than justifying the confidence placed in its creators by charter subscribers. The great interest exhibited by my friends in my copy brings me no little pride in its ownership...
...soft-hearted judges usually let them off in court when they pleaded that they were "only trying to make an honest living." The Board of Aldermen at once took the logical step for cities blighted by the car-watching racket, by drafting amendments to the Traffic Code and City Charter forbidding it. Before they were passed, to City Magistrate Anthony F. Burke was brought 18-year-old Negro John Preston who admitted soliciting to watch cars, pleaded that no one had to accept his services. "That's a lot of horsefeathers!'' snapped the Magistrate, giving Negro Preston...
...interesting possibility would be to leave Boston by the 3:00 o'clock plane for San Francisco, catch the Monday China Clipper to Manila. Charter a plane on Thursday to cover the short space to Singapore where British Imperial will take you to Bombay, where you may sightsee for several hours before catching the Dutch Airways plane arriving in Amsterdam the following Thursday...
...this emergency President Roosevelt, before sailing for South America, issued an executive order empowering the government-owned Alaska Railroad to commandeer government ships or charter private vessels, import food. Soon as three ships had been chartered, the problem rose of getting strikers to load and man them...
Ever since that September day in 1608 when Hendrik Hudson in his 80-ton Half Moon sailed 143 miles up from the sea to its site, Albany has had a maritime history. In 1686, when it received the charter which today makes it the oldest incorporated city in the U. S., the little Dutch fur trading post already was a prominent port...