Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Virginia State Conservation Commission, 44 years late, got around to putting a marker where the Old 97 express, which...
Bevin's plug for an imperial customs union warmed at least one Tory heart. When Arch-Imperialist Lord Beaverbrook, publisher of the Daily Express, heard of Bevin's remarks, he chuckled: "By God, I think I'll go right down to Transport House [Trade Union headquarters] and join the union...
...putting an end to his 14-year-old newspaper. "To a large extent," he added bitterly, "we are quitting because we could no longer endure the conditions and demands imposed on us by the International Typographical Union. . . . They handed us an ultimatum which is no longer, by their express stipulation, to be known as a contract, but will henceforward be known as 'Conditions of Employment' (TIME, Sept...
...some airlines to attract more aerial freight cargo, United, American, and Pennsylvania-Central last week were pressing the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to reduce their freight rates on a number of commodities an average of 33⅓%, putting them just a few cents higher than those on railway express...
Anglo-Saxons who (without His express consent) had elected God to the board of directors of the S.P.C.A. would never understand why men stood weeping last week on Mexico street corners. Or why altars in private homes were draped in black. Or why jammed movie theaters canceled feature pictures to show, over & over, newsreels of a man whose name most Anglo-Saxons had never heard. His native Spain mourned him, and Mexico...