Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After I had read ''Gamel Oestengaard" in your issue of Dec. 19, I mailed it to an aunt of mine who lives in Valby, asking her to verily the facts in the article...
...earned $33,674,000 against $36,396,000. Reynolds earnings were actually $4,000,000 higher than reported, that figure representing the excess of advertising appropriations for 1932 against actual expenditures. Breaking in newspapers last fortnight was the new Camel campaign, handled and written by William Esty & Co. (TIME, Dec. 26). Its motif: "It's fun to be fooled. . . . It's more fun to know...
...March of Influenza" is what Nature calls the pandemic which, first evident in the U. S. (TIME, Dec. 12 et seq.). has spread over Europe. Between the continents it hit the Cameronia, put 500 passengers to berth, killed none. Off England last week the entire crew of a fishing smack caught the disease, but kept to sea until they exhausted their rum & quinine. French battleships Paris and Jean Bart reported most of their personnel disabled...
Hard and daringly has Editor Gething tried to draw attention to his newspaper, add to its small circulation. Last month he picked on Mr. Hutton (TIME, Dec. 26). In an abusive, threatening editorial he execrated the New Yorker as an arrogant Yankee, retailed a story that Mr. Hutton had instructed his employes to drive motorboats through neighboring preserves in order to frighten ducks from them...
...Express Corp., a new all-merchandise service between New York and Los Angeles, was supposed to begin service Dec. 12 (TIME, Dec. 12). On that night blizzards raged. Rather than risk an inauspicious start the company waited for good weather, finally got into the air Dec. 18. In its first 30 days operation, bad weather forced it to cancel seven flights east bound, nine westbound...