Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twelve months ago S. S. Leviathan, only giant express liner flying the U. S. flag, was laid up at a Hoboken, N. J. pier as too unprofitable to operate. While her historic hulk grew dingier against a dingy background, U. S. Lines which bought her from the Shipping Board in 1929 tried to persuade the Government to take her back. Their arguments: 1) There were already more big ships on the North Atlantic run than the traffic warranted; 2) the Leviathan had been losing an average of $75,000 on each round trip before she was decommissioned; 3) this operating...
...April 29, 1933 William Randolph Hearst was 70. Hearst executives and empoyes were obliged to think of him as an old man. Since he rarely budged from his Enchanted Hill in California never showed himself outside his home state the notion grew that he was all but doddering. Whenever his name arose in Hearst offices, talk was apt to turn to his imminent collapse and the burning question is who would succeed to control of his publishing domain...
...will gather that England, peace-loving England, has been quite some time at the task of building up this organization She has. The firm began in 1829. Slowly, throughout the nineteenth century, the firm grew, changed it name, cast its outworn skins, grew fat, prosperous, and highly multicellular through the acquisition of this forpedo works, of that heavy ordnance factory. And then there came along Mr.Basilelos Zachavias...
...went bankrupt, he started a third. His Jamaica newspaper, The Blackman, and his Edelweiss* Amusement Corp. (vaudeville, cinemas and an amusement park) did better, until last year when they, too, went broke, but not before Marcus Garvey had been jailed again for seditious libel in The Blackman. When he grew tired of the small arena of Jamaica politics and planned to go back to the U. S., Harlem Negroes hastily dug up more evidence of fraud and gave it to the police. From Jamaica he tried to run a lottery among U. S. Negroes but the U. S. banned...
...himself "doon an' dee." Annie Laurie's parents locked her in her stone-walled bedroom until she stopped her mooning, sadly consented to marry respectable Alexander Fergusson who had rich holdings in Cragdarroch down the glen. Willie Douglas went off and got married soon after. Annie Fergusson grew plump and placid. Nearly 150 years passed before Willie Douglas' poem was discovered by Lady (John) Scott, who married into Sir Walter's clan and spent half her time riding over the countryside looking for antiques. Lady Scott wrote the music for "Annie Laurie," first popularized...