Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Object of the demonstration was not a world flyer or bathing beauty but a flag-draped little Swedish freighter, the Anna, tying up at the Montgomery Ward pier. What made the Anna's arrival noteworthy was the fact that she, a half-loaded tramp, was the first ocean-going vessel to carry an overseas cargo directly into Chicago. Thirty-three days out of Antwerp, the Anna passed through the St. Lawrence and Welland canals, delivered 1,550 tons of fencing wire and farm implements without the customary transshipment at Montreal. President George Bain Everitt of Montgomery Ward handed Capt...
Shortly before 8 a. m. the King did arrive. His special train swooped in on a special track, traversed the yards of Ansaldo Shipbuilding Co. and rolled directly under the object of his visit, the 15,000-ton hull of Navigazione Generale Italiana's new 50,000-ton liner Rex, which was to be launched in a few minutes, with Queen Elena as sponsor. This vessel, which has been made ready for launching in 15 months and is expected to be commissioned by September 1932, is designed to be the fastest transatlantic ship afloat, capable of 27 or more...
...trucks went through the Khyber Pass laden with British-bought, condemned French rifles and ammunition for the use of Nadir's armies. Altogether in the past seven months some 22,000 such rifles, with ammunition, have been shipped up through the Pass to Nadir. Object: to prevent the pants-shave-&-champagne regime of Amanullah from returning (TIME, Sept...
...itself that was so important in the Salons last week. Extreme, its popularity may soon become a waning fad. More important was what the couturiers had pulled out of the hat to go with it. Wrote one exuberant correspondent: "This diminutive object of fashion has exerted sufficient influence within less than a month to change the entire trend of styles for the last 100 years." Some of the trends...
...Ishi pickle herring and serve tea from a samovar. The day after the Tsar abdicated, he sent a cable: NICHOLAS ROMANOFF: WHEN I WAS A POOR BOY IN KIEV SOME OF YOUR POLICEMEN WERE NOT NICE TO ME. . . . CAN GIVE YOU FINE POSITION ACTING IN PICTURES STOP SALARY NO OBJECT. . . . SELZNICK. Zukor sent a friend, who was said to have been paid $50,000, from Chicago to see Selznick. Selznick and Zukor, two of the biggest producers in the industry, started Select Pictures Corp. together...