Word: en
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gave it to a traveling friend with instructions to throw it away. Month later the suitcase was returned to Marshall Fay by airplane, collect. In Newark he threw it away again. Before long he received a collect telegram from Boston announcing that the suitcase was found, was en route to Newark-collect...
Died. James Wood Johnson, 76, philanthropist, co-founder of Johnson & Johnson (surgical supplies); on the S. S. Majestic, en route to New York...
...California. Miami readers were not to suffer that. The Herald tossed the whole col-yum aside, dug up and printed instead some two-weeks-old Brisbanalities about naval armaments, the death of Santos-Dumont, etc., etc. Fortnight ago Westbrook Pegler, eloquent sports colyumist of the Chicago Tribune, was en route to the Olympic Games, writing his syndicated daily piece on the train as does Colyumist Brisbane. In one day's colyum he aped the Brisbanal style, headlined it "Tomorrow." Excerpts : "Persons aboard this train are going to Los Angeles for the Olympic Games. 'Los Angeles' means...
...publishers in neighboring cities likewise refrained from taking advantage of the situation, even rejected new mail subscriptions, with two exceptions. From Denver, Publisher Fred G. Bonfiis shipped bundles of his noisy Post into Butte. From Seattle came supplies of Hearst's Post-Intelligencer. A Butte Post office boy, en route from the post office with the day's load of "exchanges," was waylaid by news-starved passersby who offered him 50? a copy. He was incorruptible...
...There are no good turf courts in France. The courts at Roland Garros Stadium, designed by Charles Bouhana, are of red clay much like En-Tout-Cas ("all weather") courts which are made in the U. S. and elsewhere by En-Tout-Cas Co. Tennis ball specifications for size, weight, thickness of cover are the same all over the world; but because most European players prefer a slower bounce, Dunlap Co., which makes most tennis balls abroad, uses a rubber composition that gives a less lively bounce than the composition used by U. S. manufacturers. European tennis balls last...