Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three years (1898-1901) "Old Joe," through secret emissaries traveling between London and Berlin, tried to construct an alliance of the British and German Empires. But Kaiser Wilhelm II would not concede Britain naval supremacy, and Foreign Minister Prince von Bülow insisted that Germany could yield nothing which would undercut her "destiny to rule the world...
...enjoyed the distinction of being the only transatlantic ship ever built with a private bath in every passenger cabin. A neat combination of freighter and passenger ship, her high-set midship superstructure is calculated to provide first-class passenger comfort at tourist rates ($253 round trip), while her low-slung fore & aft cargo decks make money on freight. The Noordam cost $2,300,000, can carry 9,000 tons of cargo, 120 passengers...
...June 1936 Eastern railroads began selling passenger tickets at 2? a mile (after 16 years at 3.6?). Within a few months officials complained that the low fare was a losing proposition. Increase in traffic, they said, was not enough to compensate for the cut rate. After hearing them grumble for months, the Interstate Commerce Commission last July permitted them to hike their fares to 2½? mile. This was expected to raise income about $32,000.000 (TIME, July...
...pipe line north through unpiped country to the Mesabi Iron Range in northern Minnesota, the National Bituminous Coal Commission, the United Mine Workers and various coal companies were swift to protest (TIME, Sept. 26). Last week the coal-men had new cause for worry. Also lured by the low-grade ores now lying undug at Mesabi for lack of cheap fuel to smelt them, Public Service Gas Co. of Montana asked FPC for permission to build a 1,500-mile $49,402,000 pipe line to the Mesabi Range from natural gas fields in Montana, Wyoming and North Dakota...
...those which point to her husband's subtle tact, his priestlike devotion to his guests' whims. (According to his wife Ritz invented the slogan: "The customer is always right.") Such is the anecdote of a water closet specially altered for Edward VII (the seat was too low), of a lovers' quarrel patched up by a specially aromatic dinner...