Word: grande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Corinne's mother: "That man simply pestered her to death." The Dallas County grand jury, having pondered all these things, declined to return an indictment. No one in Texas was surprised. Corinne took it well...
...Federal Grand Jury found on Chicago's doorstep not just milk-bottles, but a milk monopoly that fixed prices to farmers and customers, controlled supply and distribution, harassed and coerced independents who tried to sell milk at lower prices...
...from all causes totaled only 15 vessels, 65,634 tons, of which 10,086 tons was the big British refrigerator ship Doric Star which radioed from the South Atlantic that she was being attacked, was heard from no more. Probable assailant: the German raider Admiral Scheer. Germany claimed a grand total of 194 merchantmen (68 neutral, for which she was "sorry") with a tonnage of 735,768-nearly 250,000 tons a month, which would be about one-fourth the highest monthly figure reached in World...
...Finns were first conquered by the Swedes in 1157. Peter the Great and Charles XII partitioned Finland and in 1809 Russia seized the entire country, which then became a grand duchy with a Parliament of its own and wide autonomous rights. In 1905 the Finns went on a national strike against the Tsar's usurpation of their rights, and unprecedentedly won. The Red Terror that came with the 1917 Russian Bolshevik revolution was bad enough: the White Guard Terror which followed was even worse. The Finns are therefore used to trouble...
...biggest, American, which grabbed three hangars, is now operating 84 of the 138 in-and outbound flights daily from the field. Other tenants are United, TWA, Canadian Colonial, Eastern, still operating from Newark, is belatedly readying to join the others. And from faraway Port Washington (20 miles from Grand Central) Pan American Airways will move to North Beach next year...