Word: clips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt tossed his head and laughed. He was off again for fun, and at a good clip. Over the Pennsylvania's newly (PWA) electrified tracks he made the old five-hour trip from Washington to Manhattan in 3 hours and 53 minutes. Before dinner time that night he descended from his train at Beacon, Mass, and motored into Cambridge...
Washington. Feb. 17--The nation's business leaders tonight threw their support behind a move by rebellions Senate Democrats to clip $2,000,000,000 (B) from the $4.880,000,000 (B) appropriation demanded by President Roosevelt for relief and his jobs-for-all program...
When the bids were opened considerations of price apparently went by the board. On "technical grounds" the Chilean Government decided to buy British. At one clip some $500,000 worth of orders were lost to U. S. firms. As a minuscule sop, the Defense Ministry admitted that Chile probably will buy from the U. S. spare parts for the U. S. planes she already has and intends to buy several U. S. Fairchild airplane cameras. As delighted British salesmen stood drinks all around Chilean officers growled, "This may teach the damned Yankees a lesson...
...subsistence farming seemed too radical for the producers to whom Vidor offered his ideas. Besides, they believed the subject would be outdated before it reached the public. But Vidor's friends told him to go ahead and for a year Vidor hired a girl to do nothing but clip newspapers. Convinced that the common people were as interested in his theme as he was, he produced Our Daily Bread. Of it he says: "Not only is my heart in the picture, but my shirt as well...
Suddenly, for no good reason, the bottom of the bag ripped open with "a noise like a deep grunt." Leaking hydrogen, the Explorer bounced up & down for a half hour before she began to fall at a good clip. To bail out was impossible. "If we get out up here," radioed Major Kepner, "we will blow up like paper bags...