Word: hell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Department of Commerce announced a visual beacon will be erected at Bellefonte, Pa., in the middle of dread "Hell's Stretch" (graveyard of many a mail ship), for tests by NAT pilots on the New York-Cleveland...
...lack of a central controlling or guardian agent. But "the idea of a central banking system [was] anathema to all. The compromise between the anathema and the need was the Federal Reserve Board of which Senator Carter Glass, opponent of a central bank, once resignedly remarked, "'Oh, hell, it is a central bank.'" The Redistricting Intermezzo. The book's most personal chapter deals with the dividing of the country into "not less of 'direct pressure' (the warning of Feb. 7, 1929 [TIME, Feb. 18] as opposed to the raising of the discount rate) has clarified...
...Hell Diver...
...plane somewhat resembles the Vought Corsair in appearance but has the swept-back wings of the Curtiss Falcon. Since all Curtiss planes are named for birds (Robin, Condor, Thrush, etc., etc.) the new, one has been tentatively dubbed Hell Diver...
Virtue's Bed. An attractive girl, described by her friends as intelligent, is shanghaied into a North African sporting house. Stating repeatedly that the doors of hell swing both ways, she deserts her profession on receiving an inheritance and an English estate. In England she takes up the life of a country dowager...