Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heel and outer margin of the middle feet merely bear weight. The heel strikes the ground first, stays there 0.4 sec. Then, 0.15 sec. after the beginning of the heel's impact, the middle foot begins a 0.4-sec. roll upon the ground. Just as the heel lifts clear, the big toe comes down for a 0.2-sec. contact. The instant the toe of one foot is ready to leave the ground, the heel of the other foot comes down to begin a cycle on that side...
...aunt tells her that a Russian prince, Alexis Panaieff, requests the honor of being presented to her, Laura Ridgeway (Loretta Young) is delighted. She recognizes the prince (Tyrone Power) as a young American whom she has encountered once before, and when his preposterous Russian accent makes it doubly clear that he is an impostor, she decides definitely to marry him. What Laura does not know is that marrying her is Prince Alexis' job, assigned to him by the rascally proprietor to whom he has given an elastic check; and that he finds the job distasteful because, being in love...
...totaled $688,792 in 1936, lowest for any year on record. Biggest losses were in coal and coke, stolen not only by organized gangs but by individuals who needed fuel. Professional train robbers concentrated on tobacco products, jettisoned $125,000 worth during the year. Railroad police kept their record clear on liquor shipments, in which no highjacking cases have been reported since Repeal...
...JOPPA DOOR-Hope Williams Sykes -Putnam ($2.50). First-person narrative, in broken but clear English, of a German immigrant woman who settled in Jerusalem, moved on to Utah in the early days of the Mormons...
...last week half-expected Big Steel directors to dip into surplus enough to pay off preferred dividend arrearage, thus pave the way tor a resumption on common. Since the corporation earned $28,561,000 for the first quarter of 1937, it ,would have taken $11,000,000 more to clear up the $9.25 per share arrearage plus $1.75 per share current requirements on 3,602,811 shares. This the directors did not do, voting instead to pay off $4 per share on accumulations and the regular $1.75, adding $7,845,000 to surplus. His work up-to-date Chairman Taylor...