Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Average length of all U. S. freight trains is 47 cars. But trains longer than 70 cars are the rule in large homogeneous shipments: produce from California and Florida, coal from the Allegheny fields to the coast. The Norfolk & Western, the Virginian, the Chesapeake & Ohio find it possible to operate 120-car coal trains with a single powerful locomotive. These super-engines would represent a capital loss if deprived of their prime function of pulling long trains. The roads affected by the 70-car proposal figure that it would cost them $90,000,000 per year. The Brotherhoods claim that...
...exchange of social amenities," is not "payment for the transportation." Affirmed the Court: Dr. Walker could recover the lower court's award of $25,000 damages from Partner Adamson; the Biff Hoffmans were not liable for the $31,237.65 damages claimed by the McCanns, good friends no longer...
...especially in the South, has testified that many a black man's long-forgotten debt has indeed been liquidated. In Harlem last week one Famaca Real, a Divine follower, took pen & paper, laboriously composed a letter. She had once purchased goods on credit in Pittsfield, Mass., could no longer recall the merchant's name. So to all the shop-keepers of that city Famaca Real wrote asking that one Sezar get in touch with her. Said...
...that Peter Cortlandt (Randolph Scott) takes his grandmother down to Titusville, Pa. to see a medicine show, the show-wagon burns and they take the proprietor's daughter back to their farm. Pretty Sally Watterson (Irene Dunne) is a great help around the barnyard. It takes her longer than it should to make Peter propose but that is because Peter is a trifle backward. Eventually they marry and plan a house on the hill above the cow pasture. All this, told with a maximum of apple-blossoms, old songs and stringed accompaniments is one portion of High, Wide...
...Works of art that cannot be understood but need a swollen set of instructions to prove their right to exist and find their way to neurotics . . . will no longer find the road by which they can reach the German nation open. ... If they really paint in this manner because they see things that way, then these unhappy persons should be dealt with in the department of the Ministry of the Interior, where sterilization of the insane is dealt with...