Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Character story of the British week in Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express...
...special cars were hastily prepared, one for the body of Astrid, the other for Leopold alone. Dressed in a plain black suit, his jaw taped, his arm in a white sling, the King entered the car early in the evening, waited in the yards until the St. Gothard Express chuffed in from Milan. All through the night, as the train streaked across Europe, the King sat in his car with only his Premier and his secretary for company. Early next morning a squadron of cavalry led the body of Queen Astrid back through the streets of Brussels...
...ordered garlic issued to his 2,000 track workers "to give them strength." Springing to action at 5 a. m. 96 gangs had the entire 150 miles of track narrowed to S. M. R. gauge in three hours. According to Mr. Matsuoka, his all-steel, air-conditioned, streamlined Asia Express will now average 63 m. p. h. up the 600-mile spear from Dairen to Harbin...
...earnings of $920,000 under their belts, announced Atlas' first common dividend of 30? per share - an outlay of $1,200,000. "Inasmuch as the permanency of the improvement in business is not assured," wrote President Odium, "your Directors cannot state that dividends will be regular, but express the hope that a further distribution will be possible after the end of the current year...
...started his finance company in 1908. Colonel May and his partners put up the money. By 1915 a large part of Henry Ittleson's finance business, chiefly in furniture and machines, was coming from the East. Accordingly, one Saturday noon he piled his filing cabinets into an express car, his employes into a Pullman and the following Monday morning opened shop in Manhattan. Around 1920 Henry Ittleson became convinced that his business was leaning too heavily on the motor industry. He launched a program of diversification which took him into phonographs, vacuum cleaners, barber and beauty shop equipment, electric...