Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chief among the novelties celebrating the accession of Editor Anthony was a short story contest, with $5,000 offered in prizes for the best stories published during 1929. They are to be very short-not more than 700 words. The judges are to be Ray Long, editor of Cosmopolitan; Merle Crowell, editor of American Magazine; and Robert Benchley, who survived the avalanche as associate editor of Life...
...Board and the leaders of the New York-Havana trade. Across from Southampton had steamed, as usual, the Cunarder Caronia, bearing 13 disciples of Isadora Duncan and 587 other passengers. But the Caronia had not steamed, as usual, back to England. Instead, she had paused in New York only long enough to take aboard a capacity passenger list for the first Cunard trip to Havana...
...Lines, this constituted a declaration of war. "Unwarranted intrusion!" cried President Franklin D. Mooney of the Ward Line. Vowed Chairman T. V. O'Connor of the Shipping Board: "The service of the President Roosevelt will be continued as long as that of the Caronia." Switching from ethics to economics, the Ward Line began a price-cutting struggle. Already 10% lower than the Caronia's schedule, first-class fares were slashed 25% more, to $120, round trip. The United Fruit Co., operating four ships, and the Munson Line, planning only one winter trip, followed suit. Cunard rates remained...
...just so far and no further in railroading. Moreover, building engines for sale interested him more than buying engines and keeping them running until they died of old age. He took the Pittsburgh job, at a big drop in salary. The salary did not stay down long...
...recent career of Motor-Maker Chrysler has been such a succession of crescendoes that the long overture is in danger of getting drowned out. Particularly in view of the present, climactic movement of Chrysler Motors v. General Motors, it is important to recall that...