Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concentration the war has seen, advanced along a 60-mile front, extending from Fuentes del Ebro southward to Montalban, recaptured Belchite and gained approximately 1,350 square miles of Leftist territory. Some 3,500 prisoners were taken, the Rightists announced, including 400 U. S. citizens of the Leftist Abraham Lincoln Battalion. At week's end one Rightist column was only about 45 miles from the Mediterranean. Should Franco's drive reach the sea, he will have split Leftist Spain into two parts...
When the body is diseased, however, the picture is different. Dr. Elias Lincoln Stern of Columbia believes that many sick people who take in plenty of Bt with their food are unable to utilize it because an alkaline condition of the blood or digestive tract neutralizes it. In such cases the hungry nerves snap up the vitamin, if any reaches them, like a hungry man wolfing a plate of ham and eggs. To sidestep possible alkalinity in the body, Dr. Stern administers the vitamin directly to the spine...
Although the announcement was made before the new group had even chosen a name, its working plans were fairly definite. Each man has promised a new play for next season. (First production will be a play about Abraham Lincoln by Sherwood.) Each is pledged to put $10,000 into a common fund. Each will get regulation stage and movie royalties, share the general profit & loss of production...
...Mark Time-Make Time, Use the Lincoln Tunnel." This was the prize-winning slogan selected last week by the Port of New York Authority to advertise its newest tunnel. Meanwhile Travelers Insurance Co. was doing a little advertising of its own. Its 38-page booklet, addressed to those who wish to "make time," was grimly titled "Death Begins at 40." The title referred to the fact that automobile accidents which happen at speeds over 40 m.p.h. are more than twice as likely to be fatal as accidents that happen below that speed. Behind the booklet is last year...
...Radio and Victor Talking Machine. Grown rich and weary, Mr. Armstrong last week sold out to Louis Ward Wheelock Jr., his easygoing, active, second-in-command, with two momentous results: The agency will now be named after its new owner and it will move to Philadelphia's midtown Lincoln-Liberty Building from its old offices, a brick mansion at the corner of 16th & Locust Streets which was once the home of the shipbuilding Cramp family, where according to legend when a button is pushed in the art department it still registers a call from "Mrs. Cramp's bedroom...