Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Holders of this supreme Soviet decoration are exempt from Soviet taxes (proverbially heavy). They receive an inalienable monthly stipend from the State, ride free on Soviet tramcars, busses, trains, steamers, airplanes. Russia's new State Prosecutor, plodding Comrade Andrei Vyshinsky, who has yet to make a really big mark, received last week the Order of the Red Banner, still has to pay railroad, steamship and airplane fare but not carfare...
...daring "Three Musketeers" of the Air Corps at Rockwell Field, Calif. First he saw Musketeer "Willie" Williams land on his back. A month later Musketeer W. L. Cornelius died in a mid-air collision. Lieut. Woodring carried on, helped refuel the Army's famed Question Mark endurance plane; flew from Vancouver to New York in record time with a copy of Japan's ratification of the London Naval Treaty (1930). Another officer flying with a duplicate copy crashed in a Wyoming blizzard...
...MYSTERY OF THE FRIGHTENED LADY-Edgar Wallace-Crime Club ($2). Stranglers work in Mark's Priory. Scotland Yard Boys Tanner & Totty clip the fiend at the end of a red scarf trail...
...occasion will mark the first broadcast ever to have been made by the Sodality, and it will also open the organization's 125th concert season...
...fact that it is a process difficult to control, and disastrous in its effects if it be carried too far. Examples of this are all too painfully presented by the events in the Confederacy toward the close of the Civil War, and by the complete collapse of the mark in Germany after the World War. Besides this danger, there is the fact that the present potential currency of the nation is not all in circulation. The banks have not issued all the money they are entitled to, simply because there has not been sufficient demand from financially secure sources...