Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tucker was excluded from any further say in corporate affairs. The cash on hand was $32,000, about half of which was due on payrolls, and bills. Except for equipment, that was all that remained of the $25 million Tucker had raised...
...Jokers. But the Long Island kept on losing money anyway, except for three war years, when it made $4.4 million. Last year, with record revenues of $52 million, it lost a record $6 million. It also stirred up a record outcry from commuters when it broke down almost completely under the winter's snow storms (TIME, Jan. 5, 1948). (One passenger, after 8½ hours aboard one stymied train, complained of claustrophobia, sued the Long Island for "false imprisonment...
That meant that the remaining 32 Tudors were grounded except for overland freight hops, experimental work and gasoline tanker duties on the Berlin airlift. The Civil Aviation Parliamentary Secretary gave a stark but realistic reason for the exceptions: "Those that have crashed have disappeared under the sea and there is no story to tell. If one crashes on land, there can be an examination of what is left of the aircraft, and those skilled in these matters may find some reason for the failure...
Died. Sol Bloom, 78, longtime chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee (except for the Republican 80th Congress), Democratic Representative from New York's 20th (Manhattan) District since 1923; of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md. Son of Polish immigrants, onetime song-plugger and showman (he was earning $25,000 a year when he was 18, introduced the hootchy-kootchy at the Chicago World's Fair), admirer of George Washington (he organized the 1932 bicentennial), he entered Tammany politics after successfully retiring from the real-estate business at the age of 50. Internationalist and ardent New Dealer, pince...
...blunt as the Reverend Mr. Chippler, missionaries as self-seeking as Balthazar Harge and theologians as long-winded as Deacon Popplewood. But there were others, too. Whatever else Americans had or lacked 100 years ago, a belief in God was fundamental to most of them. In The God-Seeker, except for Aaron Gadd, Author Lewis leaves it only to Babbitts in frock coats...