Word: greyhound
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...trenches and build fortifications on the city's outskirts. Women replaced men in restaurants, hotels, gasoline stations, shops, factories. The U. S. cruiser Omaha was called from Villefranche, France, to pick up 30 U. S. citizens still remaining in the city, while the British cruiser Devonshire and destroyer Greyhound stood by off Barcelona ready to aid the exit of Britons...
Thomas Bayne Wilson, former clerk and traveling auditor for the Southern Pacific Co., branched out nine years ago, became president of Pacific Greyhound Lines Inc. which he had merged from half-a-dozen motor transport companies. After nursing Pacific Greyhound through 1932 with a $412,960 profit, he was appointed Vice President and General Manager of the Alaska Steamship Co., boosted its business 50% between 1933 and 1937. Last week, to fill an old vacancy, he was elected board chairman of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., which has long wanted directors with broad transport experience. Quiet, energetic Thomas Wilson...
...Immediately responsible for Richard Whitney's downfall was a seemingly innocuous rumor-that his company was engaged in "distress selling" of Greyhound stock. Investigation proved the rumor apocryphal but proved the firm insolvent...
...year-old pacer: a mile race (against time) in 1 min. 55 sec.; at long last breaking world's record of 1:55∧ which has stood since 1905 as the greatest speed of a harness horse (pacer or trotter); at Lexington, Ky. Next day, six-year-old Greyhound, No. 1 trotter of the decade, stepped a mile in 1: 55¼ breaking the 1:56 world's trotting record* he set a year...
...have company in the bathroom when he was taking a bath. He even praises D'Annunzio's bald head. But in this he falls short of D'Annunzio himself, who declared that his "highly polished cranium," as a thing of beauty, could be ranked with a greyhound or the legs of Actress Ida Rubinstein. One of the worst pieces of horse opera to find a U. S. publisher, D'Annunzio runs to 583 pages, carries conviction in none of them. To U. S. readers it is a striking demonstration of Author Antongini's ability...