Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ship, The U. S. S. Kearsarge, constructed for the express purpose of sinking the Alabama, was sent on a successful search...
Shiniest target in Fleet Street or anywhere else in London is the spectacular "Black Glass House" of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express. Editorially, however, the Express was far from worried, shouting nearly every day across the top of its front page: THE DAILY EXPRESS DECLARES THAT BRITAIN WILL NOT BE INVOLVED IN A EUROPEAN WAR THIS YEAR, OR NEXT YEAR EITHER. Readers were not told that dark paint had been daubed over the gleaming black glass walls inside the courtyard of the Express building, that its principal editors had been fitted with asbestos coveralls, that it had spent...
...published optimism of the Express paid big. Same day the Munich agreement was signed, auditors began totting up Express sales for the "crisis" month of September, found they had reached an alltime peak of 2,520,205 a day. In calmer October they dropped slightly to 2,507,137. No other newspaper in history has ever averaged above 2,500,000 for even one month. Crowed the Express: ''Peace . . . met the demand...
...turning a former corset factory into a new and larger "Black Glass House"* in the great industrial city of Manchester, 189 miles northwest of London. Costing just under $1,000,000, the new Manchester plant will continue to turn out at least ten of the multiform editions of the Express, which is printed simultaneously in three cities (London, Manchester, Glasgow) so it can arrive in every corner of the British Isles along with its readers' breakfast muffins...
...have been carried in the last nine years. Of special interest to Harvard men who cannot travel too far is the new "Berkshire-Mohawk," a daily that leaves Boston at 7:55 o'clock in the morning, arriving at Pittsfield at 11:52 o'clock. The daily "Albany-Boston Express" can be taken for the return trip...