Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later it was briefly announced from Los Angeles that fares on Dollar, American Mail, Canadian Pacific and Nippon Yusen Kaisha lines had been upped approximately 7%. Another 3% will be added later. Lowest Dollar Line round-the-world tours will now cost $915 instead of $888; first-class minimum San Francisco-to-Manila $460 instead of $430. With a record season since 1929 just completed, Atlantic fares are also due to move upward...
...Guild's demand for a contract was turned down, Publisher Millard Preston Goodfellow worked through day and night with a punctured staff, got out the regular evening editions while as many as 250 pickets booed from the sidewalk. Ten were arrested for disorderly conduct. Printers pierced the picket line to prepare evening editions, reminded the Guild of the contract between the Eagle and the International Typographical Union, in effect until June 30, 1938. Failing to shut the plant, the Guild solicited funds by radio for its eleventh strike since it was founded in 1933, dug in for a long...
...sooner had the doodlebugs rolled out of their pits and roared across the starting line than the spectators were dramatically reminded of Indianapolis. Rounding the first of the 300 laps, Marshall Lewis' car skidded, overturned. Driver Lewis scrambled out unhurt. Later Johnny Ritter, smallest but reputedly most "heavy-footed" of doodlebug racers, did the same thing. After 2 hr. 18 min. of noise, flying dirt and squirting oil, Los Angeles' Ronney Householder flashed across the finish line, followed by Detroit's Glenn Meyers and Indiana's Ted Hartley. Winner House-holder's average speed...
...papers called "Kraft" by the trade); 2) from expensive northern spruce to cheap southern pine for paper pulp. After the War when every competitor was moving south to use cheap slash pine, Union still sat in a sleepy, War-fattened lethargy. In 1928 it was so grossly out of line that it actually built a sulphate mill in the spruce forests of Tacoma. Next year this white elephant was shut down at a loss of $2,060,000. Meanwhile Union lost money steadily in all the boom years. In 1929 it lost $750,000. In 1930, it sold less than...
...both the Red-&-White civil war and Zena's death, Julian eventually discovers no better niche for himself in the post-War world than free-lance journalism, is last seen heading for the U. S., on the apparent principle of any port in a storm. Dubiously optimistic last line is supplied by a farewell telegram from the woman Julian has lately left, informing him that she is to bear his child, heir to the civilization Europe has squandered: "He lives who will...