Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duties in an excellent manner. He proved himself equally adept at kitchen police the following week, for all of the duties at camp are assigned by roster in order to give each student as much first hand knowledge of practical military matters as is possible in the short period of training...
Last year in the corresponding period 1300 visitors of all ages came to PBH parlor. This year a corresponding number are coming with prospective 1941 men leaving in possession of the new, revised, and all inclusive vest pocket Harvard Handbook...
...contracts with power companies in the Province of Quebec. Liberal "Mitch" roared his opinion that these were foul, false and stank. Ontario, he claimed, had contracted for more power than she could use and at too high prices. It would cost the Province some $400,000,000 over a period of the next 40 years to pay what she owed under these contracts-so in effect "Mitch" simply tore them up by having his Parliament pass the Power Act of 1935 by which he declared the contracts "illegal, void and unenforceable...
Exports 8 Imports. In the first six months of 1937 total U. S. exports rose 20% over the same period last year, but exports to Japan rose 77% to $165,000,000 and exports to China rose 50% to $31,000,000, indicating that both warring factions anticipated trouble. Last week trade to Japan had suffered little, as was shown by the New York silk market, where prices declined on the belief that imports from Japan would continue to arrive on schedule. But exports to China were way off, since Shanghai normally handles more than 50% of China...
...countries, became No. i U. S. soldier of fortune, alternately a hero, a joke and a villain. Told this week in The Filibuster, his story fills 350 large pages with an adventure story as absorbing, fast-moving and as incredible as any so far dug out of that period of sleazy brigandage below the Rio Grande...