Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Makers of tabulating machines refused to see why the Census Bureau should manufacture and repair its apparatus. Printers violently objected to the Post Office's merchandising stamped and printed return envelopes at the rate of 10,000,000 per day. Railway Express Agency wanted to put the parcel post system out of business because it operated for less than cost.* Architects contended that the Treasury was hogging the design of new public buildings. Brokers in farm products were bitterly resentful against the Farm Board's activities...
Crown officials granted permission for a large office building to be erected on the Carleton House terrace block overlooking the Mall. Reporters quickly discovered that such a building will impair the view from Buckingham Palace. The Daily Express immediately recalled an interview with Viscount Esher (son-in-law of New York's August Heckscher) in which he said...
...tutors are basic, about the working of the tutorial system. I fear for the statistical classifications and conclusions therefrom which are likely to be made from the answers to many of the questions here given. My main reason for attempting to answer this questionnaire is the desire to express myself on question...
...after the war, when certain young men made fortunes in the flying end of the game. That period is passed. But the aviation industry, like the older systems of transportation, needs designers, engineers, advertising men, business executives, and the host of employees necessary to the successful moving of mail, express, and passengers...
...stride over to a railroad map of the U. S. on which a great Loree System was only a dotted line, and stand there cursing softly. Or he would sit slumped behind his desk banging a stack of five-dollar gold pieces from one hand into the other and express himself bitterly to curious interviewers: "Hell, I don't see how those fellows have the face to talk the way they do. But you can say anything if you keep a straight face...