Word: globe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the world. In their seats at 6:30 a. m. these writers scribbled furiously for eight hours. They dropped their copy in "takes" (installments) down a specially built chute to the Abbey's cellars. There 40 telegraphers tapped it out unceasingly. In newspaper offices all over the globe, editors and press crews stood by at all hours of their differently timed days, holding presses ready to receive the running story as it came...
...Britain's past. To the uninitiated or the casual student, the book will provide a well rounded, clearly thought out study of "England from the earliest times to the accession of George VI--the drama of a small barbaric island's rise to mastery over a third of the globe...
...remaining ships are the "Los Angeles", which has not been used for several years, and the "Graf Zeppelin", which has circled the globe and made over 100 trips between Rio de Janeiro and Friedrichshafen...
...problems were plentiful among his boyish crew, but chief offenders were the finicky U. S. college boys, who were apt to be diligent only about seducing native women. The radio brought a whole world's unwelcome troubles. Of the ship chandlers he bought from, only three around the globe were not robbers. End less red tape poisoned the ports. Mostly the natives along the way were pleasing, but he could not see their deterioration without thinking sadly that they had been less harmed by white men's bullets than by their civilized blessings...
...nevertheless complains bitterly about two things: 1) having to walk downstairs to answer the telephone at night and 2) having to pay 70% of his income to the Government. For a while he dabbled with a string of race horses, has lately bought up and combined Toronto's Globe and Mail & Empire (TIME, Nov. 30). But he admits that newspapers bore him, and no one has yet discovered why he set up his broker, C. George McCullagh, as a bigtime publisher...