Word: fares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Expecting such a rise in prices, the University could not contemplate a reduction in board-rates, unless the student body would accept a much simpler bill of fare, dining hall officials...
...Railroads announced cheap fare "reunion trains" to 38 towns in evacuation areas, where parents who stayed in London could meet their children, who were moved...
...London Times and Daily Telegraph run to 16 pages, censored before they are set up in type, without those mysterious omissions that irritate readers of the French press. A typical French daily has only four pages and contains virtually no news except Army communiques. To fill out the sparse fare supplied by the Ministry of Information, editors translate dispatches from British papers...
...decisions which typified the conservatives' views: the 1927 journeymen stonecutters' case, the 1930 Baltimore Street Railway case. In the first the conservatives granted employers an injunction against union stonecutters who refused to work on nonunion stone shipped into their territory. In the second, conservatives ruled that a fare fixed by the State of Maryland, which permitted the railway a 6¼% rate of return, was "confiscatory," that the company was entitled to a return of 7½% or more...
...that while Clare Boothe's hell-cats are desperately trying to get themselves out of marriage, Edith Wharton's bustled and be-snooded felines spend their time clawing their way in. The old maid, Bette Davis, never quite makes the grade, and the ensuing complications make grim and glorious fare...