Word: clink
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between the United States and South America lies a wider gulf than can be bridged merely by diplomatic "good neighbor" overtures. Long have we valued Latin imports and found their mines and plantations a profitable spot for investments. But our interest has progressed little beyond the clink of finance. Our schools and colleges have been too concerned with falling Romes and Virgin Queens to feed upon the rich historical and cultural life of our neighbors...
...last December's murder, 500 country folk, including women and children, waited expectantly in a patch of pinewood. When the motorcade from Winona arrived, the mob closed in to watch as the terrified Negroes were dragged from the bus. People in the back rows could hear heavy chains clink as the two blackamoors were made fast to trees...
...epic of U. S. railroad building ended with a mild clink in 1931. In that year Arthur Curtiss James tamped a golden spike into a convenient tie near Bieber, Calif., formally completing 200 miles of new track connecting Great Northern R. R. with his Western Pacific. After that, paralysis descended on what had once bean the lustiest field of U. S. business pioneering. Total mileage of new track laid by all U. S. railroads plummeted from 748 in 1931 to 163 in 1932, collapsed to 24 miles in 1933. In 1934, 76 miles of new track were laid, last year...
...town, was restricting its hospitality to the jurors and others officially connected with the case. Newshawks were advised to rent rooms elsewhere, and the town's housewives were preparing to reap a rich harvest from the influx of at least 1,000 guests. Already hearing the distant clink of coins, Flemington's town council deadlocked over the proposal to permit erection of street-side hot dog stands, a measure hotly challenged by the town's two restaurateurs...
...readers every Sunday go Hearst's American Weekly ("greatest circulation in the world") and Comic Weekly. Into Publisher Hearst's purse clink fat profits from national advertisers at $16,000 a page. Weary of trying to battle Hearst singly on the Sunday front, eleven competitors, led by the Chicago Tribune, banded together two years ago to sell comic section advertising for the group. Last week 21 newspapers east of the Rockies formed a gang to carry the fight to the American Weekly...