Word: ending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over August were September orders. Better yet, for the first time in ten years October bookings equaled September's, topped 1938 by 25%, put the ten-month average 21% over last year. By month's end unfilled orders were 51% above...
Even if Canada gets only the drippings from the British order spigot, the Canadian aircraft industry has growth ahead. If the war lasts long enough and orders are big enough, Canada by war's end will not in future have to buy her planes from U. S. makers...
...other biographers bearing witness among hundreds less known), and to let his own extraordinary insight play upon the record. As an incidental part of this process, he brings to life the principal political, journalistic and military figures that surrounded Old Abe from his first week in Washington to the end. His extended portrait of Charles Sumner, for example, is masterly...
When Sandburg's eloquence rises to the occasion offered by his story's end, it lifts up toward something by no means common in U. S. writing. The chapter on Lincoln's assassination and death is surgical in the closeness of its reporting, until it breaks-with powerful effect-into one simple, lyrical sentence. Later...
Like the beginning and the end of the Lincoln Administration, it had no precedents...