Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meanwhile, remember that from 1913 to 1921 I personally was fairly close to world events, and in that period, while I learned much of what to do, I also learned much of what not to do. The common sense, the intelligence of America agree with my statement that 'America hates war. America hopes for peace. Therefore. America actively engages in the search for peace...
...made counselor of the Embassy in Paris, soon became better known to U. S. travelers, including members of the Roosevelt family, than many members of the Embassy staff. In the meantime he had acquired a promising reputation by serving with special American delegations abroad and at one period was made charge d'affaires in Switzerland. Rumor had him slated for a minister's post. Last year he went to Beirut, Syria for experience in the consular service. Friends in Paris feared the Syrian climate would be bad for his health...
...Make Revolutions. In the 20-year Soviet period now closing, Observer Lyons was in Russia during the period of six years which saw: the ending of the NEP (New Economic Policy) of Lenin; the expulsion of Trotsky; Stalin's economic regimentation of the Soviet Union by a policy of Five-Year Plans; and the ensuing industrialization and collectivization...
...self-protection of the U. S.. Surgeon General Parran of the Public Health Service comfortably announced: "It is not believed by Public Health Service quarantine officers that the west coast seaports of the United States are likely to become infected, for the reason that, since the incubation period of cholera is only five days, outbreaks on shipboard will occur and the disease will become manifest long before a ship from infected ports could reach any United States seaport. However, the possibility of introduction of the disease by carrier is not being overlooked, and bacteriological search is being conducted...
From January to October last year four scheduled airliners in the U. S. crashed 40 people to death. Until last week this year's record for the same period stood at four airliner crashes, 33 deaths. One morning last week United Air Lines Flight No. i took off from Newark for Oakland, Calif. - an 18-hour, 2,600-mile journey. Chicago, Omaha, Cheyenne, where passengers changed to a 21-passenger Douglas DC3, and Rock Springs, Wyo. slid by below. A few miles farther along, skimming the mountains at 10,000 ft., veteran Pilot Earl Woodgerd reported clouds...