Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking heart, 27 department store operators got together to squelch union demands for a 35-hour week. Negotiations also stalled between unions and chain grocery store operators on the same issue. When the potent Waterfront Employers Association indicated it would adopt a strong line when its members' contracts with C.I.O. longshoremen expire September 30, gloomy San Franciscans (already faced with a shortage of drugs and liquor by the warehouse shutdown) began reminiscing about the 1934 General Strike...
...Japanese Army spokesman at Shanghai was asked by correspondents what transport planes in China could do to keep from being "mistakenly attacked" in future. Said he sagely: "The best thing they can do is not to be in the air!" Later the spokesman gave the part-German Eurasia line on which Dr. Sun flew safely last week priceless advertising by implying that its planes will continue immune. At once China National Aviation Corp. canceled all flights. Its officials said it might resume business with departures at "secret hours" if customers wanted to buy tickets on that basis...
...took eleven years to complete the 865-mile railway which more than tripled Iran's previously existing lines. Heading north from the Persian Gulf, the railroad crosses the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s pipeline; passes through Ahwaz, where Alexander the Great's fleet landed 2,263 years ago; bridges the swift Karun River; climbs mountains to reach Dizful, famed city of rats. Thence the line passes northeast through Sultanabad, city of rugs, and Qum, holy city of the Shi'ites, to reach Teheran. From the capital the road continues east, northeast, over a 7,200-foot...
...white, had caused a prohibitive tax to be levied on sugar and tea and forced down the exchange value of the currency. Not one rial of foreign money went into its construction. Skipping most of Iran's largest centres, crossing mountain ranges, connecting with no foreign railways, the line is patently uneconomic. But Danish engineers, with the help of U. S., German, Italian, French, Swedish contractors, made it a striking engineering job with its numerous spectacular tunnels (one a bizarre spiral affair), many high bridges, frequent gorge-crossing viaducts...
...walk away from it," he used to say, "it's a good landing." Once or twice Frank Hawks was unable to walk away-one crash in 1932 put him in the hospital for months and filled his famous smile with store teeth; in another he somersaulted off a line of overhead wires, landed upside down. Overhead wires were Frank Hawks's pet hate. "They ought to bury 'em all," he used to growl...