Word: plight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plight perfectly exemplifies the poser facing almost every U. S. road- that operating costs have far outstripped operating revenues. For the first eleven months of 1937 the B. & O.'s total operating revenue of $157,700,000 was $3,000,000more than for the same period of 1936. But its net railway operating income of $24,200,000 (before fixed charges) was $3,000,000 less. In the past month the depression has nipped revenues still further. Because of boom times in the spring the B. & O.'s 1937 carloading total was about 5% over 1936. But during...
...some of which must contain the germ of truth. Unfortunately, because of the complex social system, in which his elders refuse to yield the sceptre, dreading a change in the status quo, he is compelled to remain in idle unrest, able to do nothing. To add to his plight, he perceives with wonder that the old have lost hope and are resigned to to let the world follow its own highway to destruction...
...riots." Mr. Baron, onetime New York president of the Bookkeepers, Stenographers & Accountants Union, has been active in leading U. S. organizations working for Leftist Spain. Instead of being permitted to "observe conditions" in Valencia, Socialist Baron found himself abruptly clapped into jail, managed to smuggle out news of his plight by means of a prearranged code. Last week international Socialist pressure secured Observer Baron's release and he arrived in Paris after traveling the length of Leftist Spain, keeping his eyes & ears open. Earlier in the year Socialist Baron had spent four months traveling freely all over Leftist Spain...
...crew of 28 begged Captain George Coufopandelis to flash an S. O. S. to one of the several vessels which passed by. But he ordered them back to the failing pumps, confident the old freighter, bought from the U. S. Maritime Commission, would ride out the storm. . As their plight grew worse. Third Engineer Bortas Balaskas slipped into the radio room at 4:15 a. m., stood over the operator with drawn knife, commanded him to break the captain's orders and send a call for help. It was too late. Dislodged as the gale tossed the ship...
...Miss De Havilland is not as innocent as she appears, and indeed, finds herself quite pleased at the prospect. Mr. Howard finally gives up his reformation, succumbs to her attractions, and is engaged in kissing her just as Miss Davis enters. More or less disturbed, she plots a horrible plight for her straying fiancee, but finally yields to better instincts and Hollywood custom...