Word: landing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italy had no chance to seize land years ago when other nations were dividing territory and she must recover what she lost now, regardless of the opinions of the rest of the world. "The meeting between Premier Mussolini and Herr Hitler will settle the Czechoslovakian question and will bring about an agreement that will help Europe," he added...
Most surprising feature of the accord was the settlement of the land annuities. Since 1932 "Dev" has stoutly insisted that Eire would never pay a single penny and the back payments meanwhile accumulated at the rate of some $20,000,000 a year. In settling for a lump $50,000,000 "Dev" drove the British to a hard bargain-the annuities were due to run until 1990, would have reached a total...
Thomas Mann, great & good German novelist (The Magic Mountain, Joseph in Egypt) who voluntarily quit his native land in 1933 when Hitler came to power announced he would apply for U. S. citizenship this week...
...assets, $78,000,000 came from the Rockefellers. In the 1890s the University was called a subsidiary of Standard Oil Co., was twitted in an apocryphal alma mater song: "Praise John, from whom oil blessings flow." Last week University of Chicago struck oil on a tract of land it owns in Olney, Ill,* and began to collect royalties on a gusher producing 450 barrels a day (at current prices...
...petition for a 15% rate increase. Like the railroads the U. S. wire companies currently suffer from increased costs, decreased income. In 1937 Western Union made only $3,325,000 on gross of $100,400,000. Postal Telegraph, which is in 77B reorganization, lost about as much on its land line operations. Rate cuts for night letters did little good and so last December the companies asked a fat step-up in domestic rates. Last week FCC gave no reason for saying...