Word: periodicals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heavy trucks rumbled into Paris and dumped sand at points where it would be handy to shovel into bags for bomb shelters. Some 1,200,000 Frenchmen were with the colors, for in France also, recruits whose training period ended with August received no permission to return home. The whole of the vast steel and cement subterranean Maginot Line was more fully manned than ever before. General Edouard Réquin, in command of the Maginot Line, was abruptly promoted to the Superior War Council and several other high army commanders were given new key posts by Premier Daladier...
Theodore Roosevelt characterized his age when he preached the virtues of the strenuous life. To later students, that period looks more like a hyperthyroid era of American history-an era marked by strident praise of action for the sake of action, when Richard Harding Davis was reporting breathless adventures in South America, Roosevelt I was hunting in Africa, and an inclusive, optimistic belief in the value of a he-man-diet of sleeping under the stars, and spending hours in the saddle suffused popular literature...
...wrote about. In Sailor on Horseback, Irving Stone, whose novelized biography of van Gogh, Lust for Life, was a best-seller four years ago, gives a good picture of London's incredible literary labors, a good account of his strenuous domestic life, a dim picture of the period in which his books flourished. Originally serialized in the Saturday Evening Post, Sailor on Horseback is brisk and candid, has few of the selfconscious, lugubrious literary passages that weighed down Lust for Life...
...building is faring was last week indicated by the National Industrial Conference Board in a nine-page survey with charts. Its big fact: In the first seven months of 1938 industrial production was lower than for any corresponding period since 1933 but construction exceeded the corresponding figure in every recent year except 1937. And in the second quarter of this year the building lag behind 1937 was cut from...
That was in 1858, ten months before John Brown raided Harper's Ferry. And like most plans in that period, Henry Adams' went up in gunsmoke. He stayed in Washington while the South seceded, then went to London when his father was appointed minister to England. The extent of English hostility to the North stunned him; an army was sent to Canada; Gladstone proudly put $10,000 in Confederate bonds; an invasion from Canada was momentarily expected; and Adams was in such despair that, even as an old man, he grew pale when he thought of that time...