Word: offs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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We missed it one evening last week, owing to a special commercial program, and had no less than 108 phone calls from folks wanting to know why we didn't put "NEWSCASTING" on the air. We haven't dared leave it off the program since. . . .
The evening the Japanese delegates were dining in state with President Hoover at the White House, the presses of the Washington Post were reeling off a sly editorial which next morning rudely jarred the polite placidity of the Washington conversations.
Were not the I. C. C. a serious-minded body its Plan might have been entitled: "How to divide 250,000 miles of railroad into 19 systems and juggle them all into the air at once." The Commission had drawn up a set of instructions for this breathtaking feat, but...
If all U. S. farm products of 1929 were converted into cash, the resultant sum would pay off half the national debt or build four railroad systems the size of the Pennsylvania or run the City of New York without taxes for 14 years. Last week the Department of Agriculture...
Another witness for the prosecution was a deaf mute who by finger twitches testified he had seen the four attackers carry Franklin toward a big log fire. The State, contending that Franklin was burned alive, exhibited as the corpus delicti a boxful of charred bones. Because a temple bone had...