Word: hub
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article, headed by the title. "Now The Rah Rahs" and following Boston Society notes, divides the "debutante sons" into four groups, the "A's", "B's", "C's", and "And theZ." Although a few indiscriminate residents of cities far removed from the Hub are thrown in, without any particular explanation, the large numbers of social celebrities who live beyond the shadow of Bunker Hill Monument are omitted. Naturally, as in the expose of conditions within the debutante ranks, the comments accompanying each name are more sensational than the actual grading...
Even Boston, with a police commissioner who has been astonishingly vigorous since he has been in power, has seen fit to allow a total relaxation of law and order during the stay in the Hub of the "buddies" of the Legion, those glorious Americans who fought, the slogan says, to make the world safe for democracy, and who have come back to raise hell annually so no one can forget...
...Berlin, at the hub of the pinwheel, pertinent facts were seen to be: 1) Rhenish and Westphalian producers of semi-finished iron and steel products cut prices 3% last week; 2) under an arbitral ruling by Minister of Labor Adam Stegerwald (Time, June 9) the Westphalian producers won last week the right to reduce 200,000 workmen's wages 7½% next month; 3) in a trade circular the Westphalian metal syndicate urged other German industrialists to cut prices and wages, but for the time being this scheme remained a proposal, possibly a trend...
...part of the first transcontinental road would be a fitting destiny for MOP. Started in 1851, the first railroad west of the Mississippi, it was acquired in 1879 by Jay Gould as a hub for his proposed transcontinental system. But the road became dilapidated, has only been built up since 1923 when Lewis Warrington Baldwin became its president. Now MOP operates 1,.500 miles of track, claims to be the longest system in the U. S. Long considered MOP's bankers are Kuhn. Loeb & Co. and it is believed they will remain so although J. P. Morgan...
Just a week ago, the Crimson skaters and the Hub professionals staged a snappy scrimmage and the University mentor, pleased with the results of the first engagement, made arrangements with Art Ross, manager of the Bruins, for this afternoon's workout...