Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe's ledge-walkers is promised this or that in case they come inside, but it does no good. It is a pity that Europe is not able ... to say: 'All right, go ahead and jump if you want to, but it will be the end...
...however, the 150 delegates settled down to the sober, if small, business at hand. They listened to anti-New Deal speeches by Vice President Matthew Woll of the A. F. of L., Senator H. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, Representative Samuel B. Pettengill of Indiana. By week's end they had drawn up a series of resolutions which opposed virtually everything except: 1) "the American system of free enterprise"; 2) "active and immediate cooperation of labor, business, agriculture, and Government"; 3) "fundamental principles of anti-trust laws"; 4) "immediate nonpolitical solution of the present deplorable railroad situation...
Although K. P. L. & G.'s application stressed the communities its new line would serve, the company hopes to find a pot of gold at the end of its modest rainbow. The extremity of the projected line will reach the Mesabi Iron Range, richest in the U. S., whose ores now go to the blast furnaces of Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania. However, Mesabi has also much low-grade ore which has not been considered worth shipping out for smelting. K. P. L. & G. hopes by bringing a low-priced fuel to the site of Mesabi's low-grade...
...project (hinting that it might run to 25 volumes), some 11,000 U. S. readers bought copies. Thereafter sales settled so solidly to 5,000 copies for each installment that it was plain Author Romains had a group of readers determined to follow him to the bitter end...
Death last year ended Edith Wharton's work on a novel which might have been her masterpiece. She had written 29 chapters of a book apparently planned to run to about 35 chapters. The story had reached its climax; the characters were at a moment in their careers when they were compelled to make irrevocable decisions. While Mrs. Wharton left notes suggesting how she intended to end the novel, she gave no hint of how she intended to solve its moral and esthetic problems. Last week her literary executor, Gaillard Lapsley,* offered The Buccaneers as a novel complete...