Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stilled, mouse quiet. Perhaps words of moment to the Peace of the World were about to fall. Ponderously the American Ambassador drew a folded sheaf of papers from his breast pocket, smoothed them, cleared his throat, adjusted his tortoiseshells and began to read: ". . . seize with pleasure this occasion to express my profound respect for the British press . . . admirable tone, balance and sense . . . the American press partially superseded by the use of radio during our national campaign . . . auspicious occasion . . . heartfelt thanks...
...would be nearly impossible. For a chain of mighty mountains cuts off Bogota (see Map) from the Pacific Ocean, and the Colombian Capital is itself more than a mile and a half high (8,560 ft.). Even from the Atlantic side it takes longer to reach Bogota, by express steamer up the great Magdalena River, than to sail from America to France...
Bears. When Radio broke a few points on Wednesday, the market tumbled swiftly after. Johns-Manville lost 9 points; International Harvester, 13; Adams Express, 10. Case Threshing Machine, "rich man's stock"*, dropped 19¾ points, closed...
Passenger, express and mail planes cover 20,327 miles of routes. (Railroads on their silver anniversary had only 9,021 miles of trackage...
...Important ones: Boeing Air Transport, Western Air Express, National Air Transport, Pitcairn Aviation, Colonial Air Transport and Colonial Western Airways, Pan-American Air Transport, Transcontinental Air Transport, Atlantic Coast Airways...