Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London, the Daily Express, which last summer protested what it called exaggerated reports in the U. S. Press of London's unemployment riots, last week printed a cable from New York: "A great exodus of Negroes from the towns and villages of America's race-prejudiced Southern States began today. Terrified by the outbreak of lynching following the condonation of mob violence by Governor Rolph of California, America's vast population of colored folk are hurriedly leaving their homes and setting off in their second-hand cars and old farm wagons for-they know not where...
...held charges in his diocese, "for offering resistance to the National Socialist and the German Christian spirit." The non-Nazis then called for the expulsion of Bishop Hossenfelder for listening with equanimity to the Sport-palast resolution of heresy. The Sport-palasters retorted that their meeting "was to express what the spiritual leaders of the Church in Germany really think about the Old Testament and to give the highest bishop an understanding of the opinion of the people...
...data on construction of huge platforms, stabilized high above the waves by means of weighted pillars, on problems of anchorage, navigation, operation, economics. For gumchewers there were exciting pictures of a seadrome at night, in midocean position, with flags flying, floodlights blazing, beacons stabbing the dark sky, gorgeous express planes gliding down to safe landings. Even the windows of the drome's elegant hotel underlying the deck were pricked out with cozy lights...
...Yearly operating cost of the five dromes, including overhead: $2,250,000. ¶ Yearly income after the fifth year would total $11.418,000, to be derived as follows: mail, $6,000,000; express, $105,000; passengers, $4,538,000; hotels, shops, concessions, hangar space, fuel & oil, $775.000. The system would collect $70 from each transatlantic fare (estimated at $350), $25 from each traveller to Bermuda, $10 from each week-end drome visitor...
...hundred jobless. Federal flood-control work on the Missouri took 300 more. To supply crushed rock for the river and highway work two new quarries were opened, four old ones reopened. That took another 300. Gravel pits resumed operations with truckers getting contracts. A small packing plant and Refrigerator Express Co. leased part of the vacant Burlington shops. Payrolls were spent in Plattsmouth and merchants took on help...