Word: defunction
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Picture magazines have been popular in the United States since the winter of 1935-36. In that year an ambitious group of New York journalists bought out the right to use the title of a defunct funny magazine and the first of these labor-saving devices appeared. Last week the snappy Radcliffe News by a similar deal became the most recent publishers in the field. They are now selling Radcliffe undergraduates a pictorial sheet entitled "The Lampoon...
...studied hard. He graduated in 1941, clerked for a while in a bookstore. He wanted to help in the war. So he enrolled for a four-month course in machine-shop work at the National Youth Administration's Quoddy training center near Eastport, Me., site of the defunct Passamaquoddy power project...
...helped rout the railroads, who squawked about granting needed rights-of-way. There were some practical objections to a pipeline, but Ickes went right ahead. His first scheme was a project from Southwestern oilfields to Philadelphia and New York, to cost $70,000,000. The since-defunct SPAB figured that the 430,000 tons of steel required were needed more in ships and tanks...
...with Argentina for: 1) exchange of Spain's industrial goods, machinery and chemicals against Argentina's badly needed surplus foodstuffs, to the tune of some $46,610,000; 2) establishment of a joint Spanish-Argentine steamship line; 3) eventual establishment of a South Atlantic airline to replace defunct Lati, bypassing unfriendly Brazil. Buenos Aires confirmed items 1 and 2, raised politely incredulous eyebrows at item 3. Item 3 moved Washington's eyebrows too, into a worried frown...
...news came in a cable from Adelaide, Australia, in which de Jonge informed his father, in New York, that he had now joined his brother in the RAAF, having switched from the defunct Dutch East Indies Air Force...