Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marines landed from Anacostia, staged a smoky mock battle with a party of sailors dressed in straw sombreros and checkered shirts to suggest Central American Insurrectos. At Philadelphia Navy Yard visitors clambered over Admiral Dewey's old, grey flagship, the Olympia. Preparedness messages were delivered on Boston Common by James Roosevelt, at the Navy Department by droopy-mustached Secretary Claude A. Swanson, in Atlanta by the Navy's Chief of Naval Operations, Iowa-born Admiral William D. Leahy. But seadogs old & young, already convinced that Roosevelt II is Navy's best Presidential booster since Roosevelt I, last...
...school curriculum (minus reading, in which they need no instruction) in one-half the normal time. Thus they are free to spend the rest of the day investigating things the elementary public-school child seldom learns-French, poetry, music appreciation (via radio) and are doing independent research into such common aspects of civilization as lighting, transportation. Ninety per cent read newspapers daily, discourse on the Chinese war and the Roosevelt fiscal policy...
...week off 41 points from the year's high of 92.3% of capacity. To this statistic U. S. Steel Corp., world's largest industrial organization, bellwether of steel production and of New York stockmarket prices, last week gave the retort direct, by declaring its first dividend on common stock in five years. It announced net income for the first nine months of 1937 as $90,852,853 (after deduction of $4,500,000 for undistributed profits taxation) which amounts, after preferred stock dividends, to $8.26 for each of the 8,703,252 common shares. So Big Steel...
...capacity, compared with 88.4% in the previous quarter and 63.6% in the third quarter of 1936.... In recent weeks a rather marked falling off in shipments to customers occurred, resulting in an October average to date of approximately 54% of capacity." Next day, despite this warning, U. S. Steel common, which only a few days before had scraped bottom at $51.12 led the whole market upward with a rush, closing...
Francis Allen will address the Ornithological Club this evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Adams House Upper Common Room. His subject will be "Winds and Migration." All members are urged to attend...