Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Pennsy's strict rules Mr. Atterbury would have had to retire anyway next January, when he will be 70. The first five years of his management were the last five years of the post-War boom. Like other railroad men of that era, he tossed about his railroad's millions in the great game of trading, for "strategic" reasons, in control of other lines. Pennsylvania's investments in Lehigh Valley and Wabash alone cost $106,000,000. At today's prices those holdings are worth about $4,000,000⊕ Mr. Atterbury's personal...
...simply an expanded retelling of the Bible tale. In the 50-odd close-written pages that prefaced his work Author Mann stated his thesis: the story of Joseph, like all very old stories, is a kind of shorthand condensation of legends that point back & back to an era before history, a human dawn unguessed by Science. "Very deep is the well of the past...
...Manhattan's Yorkville, quit grammar school after the sixth grade, became a printer and pressman, then a roofer, a trade he abandoned when he was 17. Here the onetime master of The Bronx beerage, reputed boss of the policy game racket and the last of the great Prohibition Era gangsters left alive or at liberty, stopped, grinned. "You fellows will have to fill in the rest for yourselves," he said...
...open violation of the publisher's greatly treasured belief in freedom of thought and action which, his Herald-Tribune advertisement tells us, he values on a level with Americanism itself. If the Hearst papers have their way from now on the country is in for a long era of economic stability. Advocates of paying large veterans' bonuses with printing-press money and supporters of high-powered sales taxes will look elsewhere for aid in the future. Randolph Hearst has sowed his wild oats and is now definitely on the bandwagon of liberalism and laissez-faire democracy...
...Petersburg, Fla., a record crowd for a Florida exhibition game (6,500) last fortnight went to see the two most famed baseball players of their era play against each other. With Jerome Herman Dean pitching for the World Champion St. Louis Cardinals, the Boston Braves' new rightfielder, George Herman Ruth, failed...