Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mobile & Ohio, struggling in receivership between two rivers and five competitors, and Atlanta & West Point R. R. followed suit. Meantime, the Southern was experimenting on branch lines with a 1½? coach fare. This line found that with base fares cut more than one-half, net earnings nevertheless increased appreciably. With these heartening precedents, more than 1,000 lines west of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio and Potomac applied for and received from I. C. C. permission for a 2? rate effective Dec. 1, Southern and Seaboard Airline reduced to 1½?. These resurgent railroads happily announced that...
...Nevertheless, the annoyance provoked by Newsman Evans indicated that the merger had progressed and that, probably, only the Tribune's kind of noise was likely to prevent it. Typical Tribune scare: that the merger would enable the University of Chicago to avoid $300,000 of taxes by getting under Northwestern's liberal tax-free charter...
...Nevertheless the cautious American Olympic Association was not to be stampeded into adopting the A. A. U.'s "boycott" plan. Against fiery old "Gus" Kirby stood equally fiery Brigadier-General Charles H. Sherrill, American member of the International Olympic Committee and onetime Ambassador to Turkey. Barked General Sherrill: "In its present form [this resolution] is a threat to Germany. I move it be amended so as to be a protest...
...Hope's Saturday Evening Post novel; Dwight Deere Wiman and Tom Weatherly, producers). In 1928 Princeton University permitted Hollywood cameramen, Director Frank Wright Tuttle (Yale 1915) and Actor Charles ("Buddy") Rogers (University of Kansas) to swarm over real Princeton bedrooms, bleachers, dining halls for a "real" college cinema. Nevertheless the resultant Varsity showed the usual Hollywood misconception of U. S. college life...
...future of the Securities Act our representative prophesied that not many moons would pass before it was either repealed or modified, for though there has been no reliable evidence whatsoever that the requirements of the Act have prevented the flotation of any but the most shady new issues, nevertheless its general effect has been to throw one more unnecessary shiver into the already tremulous limbs of the banking fraternity. And now Roosevelt has advised that revisions be made to alter the psychological impasse thus created by removing much of the stringency attached to the administration of the Act. If this...