Word: clicking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Click. Union Pacific's net operating income for April totaled $797,169, which was a quarter-million dollars more than April 1932, and $131,577 more than March this year...
...Click. The company placed a $200,000 order with Pullman Co. and General Motors Corp. to build a streamlined, oil-or gasoline-motored train capable of traveling 110 m.p.h...
...Click. The company had been offered the use of liquefied butane∙ for running the new train. According to experience of the rival Southern Pacific which has been trying out liquid butane, the synthetic fuel cuts fuel costs two to three cents a mile, lubricating costs one to two cents a mile...
Newspapermen knew that Grofé had been persuaded to write Tabloid by his friend George Clarke, restless, hard-driving city editor of the New York Daily Mirror. Grofé visited the Mirror offices, devised a scenario which called for typewriters to click out hectically the routine news of the day, for a harp to represent the society editor calling for a copyboy, for a big bass horn to bellow like the managing editor. A sob sister had her maudlin, banal bit. Piccolos and traps described the comic-strip antics of Mickey Mouse. Revolver shots expressed murder headlines. Drums drummed...
...Freshman team lifted a victory easily out of grasp of the 51st brigade team, which did not seem to click during the contest. Peter Jay and E. H. Gerry starred for the Freshmen, and the final chukker ended, the yearlings leading the army 8 1-2 to 4. HARVARD WESTWOOD McGuckin. No. 1 No. 1. Clark Davis, No. 2 No. 2. Phillips Nicholas, back back Palmer (Dillingham...