Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been a long week end, but a short visit," said the King...
...March 6 to April 17, but when he returned everyone commented on what an amazing comeback he had made. His step was firm and vigorous, his color high, eye bright, voice strong. Then he began to fail. His last appearance was on the Wednesday preceding the term's end, and observers expressed doubt then that he would be able to finish...
...Gentlemen, this examination will end promptly in twenty minutes." Pens scratch paper desperately. The Mem Hall clock tolls the death-knell,--twelve o'clock noon. Fifteen more minutes; then ten; then five. People are handing in their blue books, strolling out the door. Vag scrawls the last word in his blue book. Slowly he puts his pen away, closes his book, puts on his coat, drops his blue book in the box, and wanders out into the sunlight,--into freedom. All through...
...tiny shop. So, vowing he was through with locomotives, he cut a hole in the wall. But "Old Ironsides" surprised him, hit 28 miles an hour on the six-mile Philadelphia-Germantown run. That was fast enough to earn immortality as a locomotive pioneer. For Old Ironsides the end came in 1857 when a Vermont landslide mummified...
...decide to fight Recession II by priming heavy industry instead of consumer purchasing power, it is likely to choose railroad equipment (either forming a corporation to rent equipment to tho roads or guaranteeing loans enabling them to buy it) as one of the surest, quickest ways to gain its end. The figure New Dealers like to quote as a "minimum" of new locomotives needed to modernize the U. S. rolling power plant is 500 new engines a year; at this rate, barely a dent would be made in U. S. locomotive obsolescence. Assuming that Baldwin got what has been...