Word: millinger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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For miles around not an empty hotel room could be found in Chicago. On 40 extra Pennsylvania Railroad trains 30,000 travelers were deposited at Union Station. New York Central brought in another 20,000, the Chicago & North Western 15,000. Air lines reported waiting lists. Automobiles were spotted from...
A milling, jostling, sweating crowd choked the corridors of the Senate Office Building. Men in white linen suits, women with hats askew and hair straggling damply into their eyes, fought to get into a stifling room long since jammed to the doors. The room was that of the Senate Committee...
The new Duce has steadily emerged as Italy's years have grown leaner. "Our economic life must be simplified!" he announced in 1931. Since then he has simplified with a vengeance. Not to mention Italy's shipping lines which most people know have been merged into one vast...
While Louisiana's Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long blustered and blathered on the floor of the U. S. Senate all last week in a filibuster against the Glass branch banking bill, designed to provide sound banking facilities for outlying districts, a wave of bank closings smashed over the outlying districts...
Outside the building every fire crew in Tokyo was at work but there was not a fire ladder in the city tall enough to reach the roof. Army planes swooped overhead trying to drop ropes to the milling crowds on the roof. A battalion of troops with fixed bayonets held...