Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austrians smelt in his Venetian nostrils. As a boy he fled south, joined the bearded Garibaldi's redshirts and took part in their march on Rome. Back in liberated Venice stocky young Morosini was lounging along the narrow calle one day when he saw a gang of roughs attacking a young tourist and his tutor. Giovanni Morosini snapped open the stiletto he always carried and dashed to the rescue. The young tourist was the son of Jay Gould. Tycoon Gould, then secretary of the Erie Railroad, promised young Morosini a job should he ever...
...French. Much like the Turkish Revolutionists in 1918. the Young Annamites of today demand proclamation of an Annamite Republic. They refer contemptuously to Ping Pong Player Bao Dai as a "French Emperor" and are not above hatching bomb plots against French Governor Pierre Pasquier who has had several narrow escapes...
Usually gasoline price movements follow changes in crude oil prices. But last week crude remained at the levels it reached last April when the industry claimed to have "turned the corner." And herein lay the crisis. The narrow spread between crude and gasoline means small profits for refiners. Oilmen nervously watched production figures, feeling that the first surge of unwanted oil would upset the price structure. In Oklahoma, where troopers have dug up most of the illicit pipelines which secretly carried oil from shut-in wells to open wells, production was in hand last week. But enforcing proration has become...
Next pale, white-powdered Empress Nagako (who has borne only daughters) received bronzed Conqueror Honjo in private audience, a rare honor for a man.* Their Majesties then jointly had the "Devil Tycoon"? to lunch. Straight from their Royal Palace he drove to an ugly alley, so narrow that his limousine could not enter. Alighting amid frenzied cries of Banzai! he squeezed down the alley to his tiny, Spartan home...
...last week. The gap between this year's output and last year's was squeezed from 12.3% in the preceding week to 10.4%. The Atlantic Seaboard was the star performer, using but $.$>% less power than a year ago. Any increase in steel mills and automobile plants would narrow the gap still more...