Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After about an hour, the captains of both ships decided that they were leaking not too badly, limped into Victoria. Thence the Lyons sailed to Seattle where they boarded a special train for San Francisco to catch the fast Matson Liner Mariposa for Australia. Said genial Premier Lyons to Seattle reporters, "I wish you could meet my wife, but she's asleep. She was rather knocked out, you know, by the steamer collision. She'd been up early in the morning to see the scenery, hoping to have a good sleep that night, and that...
Minute later questions were popping so fast that Witness Gadsden found himself open-mouthed to answer one question while Chairman Black was already asking another. That, however, was the only trouble the cool little utilitarian had with his answers. Freely he testified that up to June 30 the Power lobby had spent $301,365 on its fight against the Public Utility Bill. Half of this sum had been donated by holding companies, half by Edison Electric Institute. Two Manhattan law firms were paid $75,000 each. The famed publicity firm of Ivy Lee & T. J. Ross received...
...took it off and handed it to her, then stepped into another room for a minute. When I came back she was wearing it. Just before I left the West Coast I asked her for it. She cried a little but handed it over. I got out as fast as I could...
Fortune's wheel spins fast in the oil industry but never so dizzily as for Joshua S. Cosden. One turn lifted him from a small-town newspaper to a $50,000,000 Tulsa oil empire. Another landed him in Manhattan society with a $2,000,000 house in Palm Beach, a stud farm in Virginia and a show place on Long Island where he entertained Edward of Wales...
...minded father, who set him to work as a molder's assistant in the Beloit foundry. During the War, President Morse was chief procurement officer for the U. S. Signal Corps, is still called "Colonel." Now 56, he loves to hunt big game in India, likes to drive fast cars to work from his home in Lake Forest out-side Chicago...