Word: rails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much of U. S. Steel's production capacity lies in heavy structural and rail tonnage. As all the world knows, these two classifications have long been at the foot of the class in Recovery. Hence...
Married. Cassius M. Clay, counsel for RFC's rail division; and Miriam Blossom Berle, 37, teacher, sister of New York City Chamberlain and onetime Brain Truster Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (TIME, March 12, 1934); in Boscawen...
...costs $126.50; if the smallest New International comes in 14 volumes and costs $95; if Everyman's comes in twelve volumes and costs $30, then how can a Michigan farmer afford a first-rate encyclopedia? The tall, taciturn proprietor of one Michigan farm looked over a fence rail at his neighbors and pondered that question. What the U. S. needed, Dr. Clarke Fisher Ansley decided, was a good one-volume encyclopedia...
Some seven hundred miles off the New England coast a dozen passengers on the Black Diamond freighter Black Gull last week gathered at the rail to examine a speck on the horizon. On closer inspection, the speck turned out to be a boat, the size of those usually seen moored at yacht-club landings. To suggestions that he take the tiny craft in tow, rescue her crew, the Black Gull's captain, Leonard Frisco, explained why this was inadvisable. No derelict, the boat was the German yawl Stoertebeker. With five other minuscule vessels, which left Newport a fortnight before...
...time he found out that the young feller who tended bar at the saloon where he got his drinks was going to lose his job because he couldn't mix 'em right. Well, my uncle went down there one morning and put his foot on the brass rail and he said: 'Son, I'm agoing to stay here until you learn how to mix these drinks...