Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Iran's inland capital. Thus the Trans-Iranian Railway, most spectacular, most expensive railroad enterprise undertaken since the World War, was pronounced completed. The railroad is the dream come true of a westernizing, wilful ruler who still believes in the 19th-Century notion that railroad-building is a matter of national prestige...
...semitropical shores of the Caspian Sea. A train will now be able to haul oil from the southwest to the granaries of the northeast, can return to the Persian Gulf loaded with Mazanderan cotton and Caspian Sea caviar. How much the freight charges will be is another matter...
Little did it matter last week to loyal Iranians that the railroad had cost $160,000,000, that its financing out of revenue had bled the country white, had caused a prohibitive tax to be levied on sugar and tea and forced down the exchange value of the currency. Not one rial of foreign money went into its construction. Skipping most of Iran's largest centres, crossing mountain ranges, connecting with no foreign railways, the line is patently uneconomic. But Danish engineers, with the help of U. S., German, Italian, French, Swedish contractors, made it a striking engineering...
...womenfolk: Louise Platt, the refined, ladylike girl who learns to love the ruggedness of it all, Dorothy Lamour, appearing in a turtleneck sweater instead of a sarong but with the same effect, as a tough tavern-keeper who will stick to George Raft through thick & thin, no matter what people think...
...relating to the evils of violating freedom of speech and the press. At the close of the broadcast, Commentator Carter turned from Philosopher Mill, said: "It is indeed, as the makers of Huskies and Post Toasties have said, as Erik Rolf so ably put it, it is considerably a matter of inability to find convenient time to meet the desires of General Foods that brings this series to a temporary...