Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
From Turkey last week, via the Frankfurter Zeitung, came news that 20,000 stray dogs had last year been cleared off the streets of Istanbul and killed. Travelers lately returned from Istanbul were amazed at the number, having thought that Istanbul's teeming population of pariah dogs was part of its dead past...
This good news for one U. S. airport was last week counterbalanced by tidings which chilled the operators of 160 other U. S. fields. In Washington, the Bureau of Air Commerce disclosed that it is planning new regulations which may disqualify all but 30 of the present 190 scheduled airline stops. Within a year the new four-motored transports scheduled for U. S. airways will need far more room for landing and taking off than do present planes. The Bureau plans to set up three airport classifications-super-terminals with runways of 4,000 ft. in four directions, plus...
...follower named "St. Mary Bloom." Uptown there were more crowds and the skies rained cards printed: Your Maker and Creator Is Here. In Kingdom No. 1, Father Divine ate with his shouting followers. The homecoming was climaxed beyond their hopes when someone came in with the agreeable news that. Faithful Mary had been in a motor accident in New Jersey. Said Father Divine: "If anyone sides with her, the same curse shall fall on their heads as has fallen on hers. They shall go down with her. Her sins have brought her fall. But this was just a slight sketch...
...Left," were receiving reports from their spies that Steelman Fairless and Labor-man Murray were about to sit down to bargain. The independents were incredulous. Just before the bargaining began, U. S. Steel's President Irvin called up all the independents in person to break the news officially. In terrific agitation the independents started to criss-cross the country with long-distance calls and within less than two hours after the end of the first bargaining conference no less than five independents, led by Ernest Tener Weir's National Steel Corp., had announced wage raises...