Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eastern roads got a forced lesson in low-fare operation when ICC ordered their coach fares cut from 3.6? per mile to 2?, their Pullman fares from 4? to 3?. While they talked darkly of a court fight (which they did not make because Baltimore & Ohio refused to join them), the new rates increased passenger revenues. New York Central, whose big, bald President Frederick Ely Williamson headed an indignant protest committee of Eastern road presidents, enjoyed a $7,000,000 rise in passenger income for the year...
...licensed pharmacist. But he kept in touch with Bolshevik doings and returned to Russia after the Kerensky revolution. There he met, through William Boyce Thompson, Colonel Raymond Robin, head of the American Red Cross mission. In those troubled times Mr. Thompson could get no meat for his wolfhound. Gumberg got it., He became confidential agent for the Red Cross. Through the Red Cross he formed his enduring friendship with Judge Thacher and the late great Morgan Partner Dwight Morrow...
...song My Man in 1920, sued for an injunction (and $250,000 damages) against the Twentieth Century-Fox cinema Rose of Washington Square, a take-off on Nicky's & Fannie's lives (TIME, June 5). This week, beating out the injunction by a nose, the studio attorneys got together with Nicky, settled his claim out of court for a reported...
...Claire, Wis., Oil-burner Salesman W. B. West, arrested for speeding, could not pay the $20 bail bond. He got the money by persuading the desk sergeant to make a $20 down payment on an oil-burner...
...youngest son in a family of 21 children, shy, shrinking, nearsighted, epileptic Edward Lear was coddled by a sister 21 years older, who never let him attend school. As a young man his painstakingly realistic illustrations of a book on parrots got him a job sketching the private menagerie of the Earl of Derby. His first meals were taken with the Earl's steward, but Lear's charm and humor soon won him a chair in the dining room...