Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every frankfurter in a package that bears the inspection legend of the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry has been heated to a temperature of 137° F. (a temperature under which trichinae can no longer live...
...Homer Martin severed his ties with C. I. O. and John L. Lewis four weeks ago (TIME, Feb. 6). Having had time to weigh the reaction among his rank & file, Rebel Martin last week professed to want only "an autonomous union" within C. I. O., where he is no longer wanted. Thus he apparently hoped to offset reports that he is thinking of lining up with A. F. of L.'s William Green, whom most autoworkers heartily distrust...
...Vatican Carl-Ludwig Diego von Bergen, who, while conveying to the College of Cardinals the condolences of the diplomatic corps, told them: "We are assisting at the elaboration of a new world, which wants to raise itself upon the ruins of a past that in many things no longer has any reason to exist. We want this evolution to be peaceful, and the papacy without any doubt has an essential role...
...like a maddened thresher, still followed through a rippling run as though he were plucking a rabbit from a topper. But his stubby fingers, which he always soaked in warm water before a performance, though still steely-supple, had just perceptibly lost something of their cascading fluidity. Critics no longer unconditionally rated him as No. 1 among the world's great pianists. But he still had what it took to hold an audience: a great past, a great presence...
Unless Herr Hitler changes his policy this will be necessarily true, for while canals and airways have prospered under the Nazis, along with highways, railroads have gone to pot. German State Railways, once the snappiest system in Europe, is no longer able to handle its traffic...