Word: journals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...human record, and probably for relief, did the author set down in airmen's vernacular daily events and sensations from the day he sailed from Halifax to the eve of his death behind Germany's lines. Nor is it a philosopher's diary, but the blunt journal of a rather tough, inarticulate "war bird." He "laughs off" the emotion stirred in him by a full moon at sea, by guessing he needs "a little loving" and wondering about the trained nurses aboard. He records the deaths of comrades with as little flourish as he accords their myriad...
...Hello, Central, give me the Chicago Underworld, please--Yes, hello is this Chicago--; central you cut me off. Hello, hello--Chicago Underworld? What? what was that? the Chicago Underworld? Oh, the New York Journal (in high disgust). We must have got the wires mixed...
Poultry statistics compiled by the Wall Street Journal state that this business is now equal to that of the U. S. wheat crop. Only corn, cot- ton, hay surpass. Minnesota and Missouri reported rapid growth in poultry values...
...always good fun to compute the output of the Ford Motor Co., the centre of U. S. business romance. The Wall Street Journal from time to time publishes some crumbs of Ford information which its agents pick up in Detroit. That is where these statistics of Ford's year production came from, that the paper published last week...
...thought good for him. When he died he was living on blood three-fourths of which was not his own and had undergone 113 transfusions. "No other patient has received, so far as is known, the number of transfusions here recorded," commented the doctors in their report to the Journal of the American Medical Association...