Word: graphically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like? Describing housing as an industry the Industrial Revolution passed by, these reprinted articles by FORTUNE'S editors give the facts of the building industry as it is today, the well-authenticated indications of what housing will be tomorrow. Twenty-three pages of half-tones give a graphic commentary on its concise, challenging comment...
...motherly care of his part Hawaiian son, walked into Harbin last week dressed in a potato sack and part of a tent. Other U. S. travelers were not so lucky. Nude, blue with cold, suffering from exhaustion they staggered into town to tell about four brigand-staged trainwrecks. Most graphic description came from young Henry Hilgard Villard, son of Editor Oswald Garrison Villard of the Nation, on his way across Russia to study in Britain at Cambridge...
...Grew, kinsman of John Pierpont Morgan, whose last post was Turkey. Mr. Grew stood for no nonsense in Tokyo. Laconically he cabled to the State Department : "The recent affair of the Osaka branch of the National City Bank of New York which is subjected to a charge of photo graphic espionage has assumed proportions which threaten to cause serious injury to the bank's prestige and business, if not to its personnel and property. "Grew therefore called on the Minister of Foreign Affairs this afternoon and laid the matter before him asking that full investigation be made...
...Author Van Loon makes a blanket apology for statistical inaccuracies, explains that the authorities he has had to depend upon contradict themselves. Doubtless few professional geographers will shoot a sitting bird by reading Van Loon's Geography for mistakes; but even a fellow-amateur may hit on some. The graphic sketches and three-dimensional maps are often effective, enlightening, sometimes merely unscientific and cheap, for example a drawing of Fujiyama with a tree in the foreground captioned "The Old Japan"; the same drawing with a cannon substituted for the tree, captioned "The New Japan." Author Van Loon's bright chapter...
Reduced in size and price (from is. to 6d.), the Graphic was renamed The National Graphic. Editor Beaumont explained: "Lord Northcliffe, followed by Lords Rothermere and Beaverbrook, set out to organize the daily and Sunday newspapers on a national scale, but nobody has yet taken up the British weekly press in a similar way, although it has been done in the United States where the weeklies have gigantic circulations...