Word: handly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kamal Ataturk of Turkey: hand embroidered table linen...
...French Republic: a dinner service and hand mirror for Queen Farida...
...bite the hand of President Roosevelt, whose Treasury silver purchases from Mexico have alone saved the peso from collapse, was the scarcely brilliant move made last week by President Lazaro Cardenas. Well knowing that Mr. Roosevelt wants lower tariffs all around, that they are the thing dearest to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, President Cardenas blandly raised tariffs on most things Mexico buys from the U. S. by 100 to 200%. On some items he upped them...
...American Airlines last week offered complimentary rides up to April 1 from Newark to Albany, Buffalo, Boston or Washington to wives accompanying holders of air-travel cards (yearly fare contracts requiring deposits), to enable wives "to learn at first hand how entirely safe you are when you travel by air." Promptly 48 wives accepted American's invitation...
...single track line from dock to home. No toy, its four-ton electrically driven passenger car seats six, hauls a big baggage van. From the Bermuda Railway was borrowed Chief Engineer Kitchen to supervise construction; into the island's collections went $2,000 in duty on materials. On hand for the inauguration was Bermuda's florid British Governor, Lieut.-General Sir Reginald J. T. Hildyard-who, like all Bermuda Governors, is a good friend to the island's richest residents. So pleased was Railroader Astor with his labor saving railway that he panned to extend it over...