Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...operators prepared to buck the strikers by a lockout. Dr. Arthur Mothwurf, president of the mills, declared that production would cease "until labor conditions became stabilized." Great was the anxiety of Elizabethton boosters who had seen the German rayon factories put their tiny town on the U. S. industrial map...
...hundreds of thousands of men, were lost - dispersed, melted, evaporated; a war in which there were no real battles, only raids and affrays and massacres, as the result of which countries as large as England or France changed hands to and fro; a war of flags on the map, of picket lines, of cavalry screens advancing or receding by hundreds of miles without solid cause or durable consequence; a war with little valour and no mercy." The Significance. In the preface to his ebullient history Chancellor of the Exchequer Churchill insists that "all the opinions expressed are purely personal...
Sirs: A little rumor came to my ears a few days ago that you had printed my letter rebuking you for leaving Maracay off the map of S. A. Evidently my efforts to make it well known weren't appreciated, for the powers that be seem annoyed. No one has seen that copy of TIME [Feb. 11]. I think you have been suppressed. Aren't you flattered? I am. In the event I am asked to leave these parts, I'll come around and tell you large earfuls of lovely gossip that would just sizzle the pages...
John D. Rockefeller Jr. last week wiped the village of Eastview off the map of New York, by outright purchase of that once flourishing Colonial hamlet on the outskirts of Tarrytown. Mr. Rockefeller paid more than $700,000 for the privilege of ousting 46 families, so that the new main line of the Putnam division of the New York Central R.R. may run along what was once Eastview's main street, instead of through the Rockefeller estate, "Pocantico Hills." At the same time he rid his vicinity of a mushroom congerie of dance halls, picnic groves, gas stations...
...largest circulation (2,000,000) the Mail lavishly placed in the window of every shopkeeper whose "egg packer" had signed the pledge the following placard: Not to be outdone, the Cornish growers of broccoli, succulent vegetable, adopted last week a "National Mark" for their produce bearing a map of England exactly like that on the Daily Mail egg placards. For export to France the broccoli is labeled Choux-Fleurs, Premiére Qualitó, while Germans will receive Blumenkohl, Prima Qualit...