Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end no large-scale revolt against Generalissimo Franco had materialized, but reports, rumors and facts did provide some inescapable conclusions: 1) there was widespread if suppressed disaffection in Insurgent Spain; 2) the slogan "Spain for the Spaniards," introduced by grapevine from Loyalist Spain, was making trouble for Generalissimo Franco's Italian allies; 3) the Loyalists had an efficient espionage service in their enemy's territory...
...week's end, after three days of fighting, Generalissimo Franco's troops- Spaniards, Italians, Moors-had advanced an average of about five miles on a 100-mile front. Insurgent communiques claimed a rout near Tremp. but U. S. newsmen back of the Loyalist front saw no signs of panicky retreat. Both sides agreed that the full force of the offensive had not yet been launched...
Angels With Dirty Faces (James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Dead End Kids; TIME...
...dead. Still vivid, if over-typical, are the people themselves: the drunkard (Bramwell Fletcher), the charwoman (Laurette Taylor), the clergyman, the snob, the businessman, the young couple who have killed themselves for love. Still troubling are these people's confusions, hopes and fears as the voyage nears its end and the image of "the Examiner" haunts their minds...
...week most U. S. businessmen prepared to write off 1938, if not with pleasant memories at least with grim thankfulness. Steel production, at 52% of capacity, was double that of a year ago. The stockmarket, though dawdling, was doing so on a plateau 25% above 1937's year-end levels. Virtually every index of production or distribution-building, power, car loadings -had enjoyed an upward surge...