Word: excepted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this spring that Lowell forged ahead, annexing second place in every sport except track, which the Bellboys won by a large margin...
...From the sack of Shanghai (TIME, Sept. 13): the dead being flopped into trucks like limp loads of fat codfish; the scorched, wailing baby in the railway station square, quite alone except for acres of dead and the newsreel cameramen...
...Whitney, who lent Whistler's Wapping on Thames; Financier Stephen C. Clark, who lent Homer's Croquet; Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss; Financier Sam A. Lewisohn; Marshall Field; Edsel B. Ford; Manhattan Architect Philip L. Goodwin; Mrs. Stanley Resor of Manhattan and Robert Hudson Tannahill of Detroit. All except Mrs. Bliss and Mr. Tannahill are trustees of the Museum of Modern Art; but Mr. Bliss is a trustee and Mr. Tannahill is a cousin of Mrs. Edsel Ford. Outside this wealthy constellation, the large and scattered group of private collections includes those of gash-mouthed Edward G. Robinson...
...Franklin Roosevelt that the Government buy up his utilities in TVA territory. What makes the utility situation seem desperate to such men as Wendell Willkie are two New Deal policies: 1) direct competition with the utilities through such projects as TVA and Bonneville Dam; 2) abolition of all except geographically integrated utility pyramids, which is a main feature of the Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. Result has been the bitterest of all the battles between Franklin Roosevelt and Big Business and the loser has been the nation: instead of spending their normal $700,000,000 a year in expansion...
...only important U. S. business which in the last year has withstood Depression, and producers felt it was too good to last. More important still-despite increasing demand, proration figures have unquestionably been too high. The Petroleum Institute in April stated that 2,600,000 barrels a day (except for California, which has no proration laws) would be about right. The States east of California have actually been producing almost 2,700,000 barrels. As a result, refineries have built up immense inventories- 92,000,000 barrels of gasoline in March...