Word: downes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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> Every major economic change produced by war, even the creation of new industries, is a dislocation which upsets the world for a long time afterward. Every neutral which had a war boom in 1914-18 had a post-War depression when its wartime markets were lost. In the case of...
In May, Donald won the first major-league game he pitched. Then he won another and another and another. Baseball fans began to notice the Yanks' rookie. Skeptics said he was just lucky: he was aided by the heavy hitting and smart fielding of his mighty teammates. But after...
With business-like efficiency, Vanderbilt and his well-drilled crew went after the Tomahawk with which his arch-rival had hoped to scalp him. In the first race, sailed in a gale that sank one of the competing boats and drowned a seaman, Vim finished 37 minutes ahead of Tomahawk...
Famed since L'Oeuvre became a daily in 1915 have been that Left-Liberal Paris newspaper's manchettes. In French newspaper makeup, the manchette (literally, cuff; in U. S. parlance, the ears) is the space next to the paper's name in which its more-or-less...
To Minneapolis Bourbons the demise of the Journal was a death blow. For years it had fought their fight, played down their financial alley. Foe of the late Governor Floyd B. Olson and his Farmer-Labor Party, it was stanch Republican, anti New Deal. Rich with local department store advertising...