Word: loss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even more phenomenal in 1938 was Thomas E. Dewey's loss of the New York Governorship by less than 1 % of the total vote (4,821,631). To many a U. S. citizen Mr. Dewey was already a glamorous St. George; he became a top G. O. P. possibility for 1940. Mr. Dewey, in fact, looked like a political Hare. Down the track he dashed last week, lengths ahead of the field. The Hare...
Convoys can go no faster than their slowest members. Mr. Churchill said that the system has now been speeded by instituting "slow" and "fast" convoys, so that wallowing tramps do not hold up the parade.* He pointed out that while losses of British merchant shipping declined in October to half the tonnage lost in September, and again in November to two-thirds of October, neutrals last month lost four times what they lost in September. This, he said, "is indeed a strange kind of warfare for the German Navy to engage in. When driven off the shipping of their declared...
...railroads carried more than a billion passengers. Last year they carried less than half a billion. Much of the loss went into trips made by U. S. citizens in their own automobiles. But a big piece was lost to U. S. bus lines and a big reason for the loss was the failure of the railroads to provide up-to-date accommodations for day coach passengers soon enough or to charge competitive fares. In the 1938 recession eastern roads actually upped fares. Bus lines quickly placed orders for new equipment...
...Chief loss in the configuration was suffered by Rivin who lost his entire notes for an honors thesis, representing most of the studying he has done this fall. All his other books and papers, and even his bed went up in flames, while Josem came out of it with only a few belongings scorched...
...what they want to see. If the Holyoke Bookshop were to close, a whole range of social and economic thought would no longer be readily available in Cambridge. At a time of crisis when so many ideas are being reassessed, we feel that thin would be a serious intellectual loss. Bebe Stearns, for the Holyoke Bookshop...