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Word: rails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the communion rail in St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Philadelphia's grimy Kensington industrial district last week knelt 80 out-of-work hosiery workers. They joined curly-haired Rector David Carl Colony in a prayer of thanksgiving. They listened to his sermon: "Remember . . . you have not arrived by yourselves but with the help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Entrepreneur of God | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...early stages of another war Poland can use this border network. If the Poles are forced to retire, as expected, they will have no rail network to supply them but beyond a certain point the advancing Germans will also be without such communications close up to their lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: The Geography of Battle | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...jury's verdict: ''To the best of our belief . . . [the rail] was misplaced by a person or persons unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: In Humboldt Canyon | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...Warren's men grabbed at the netting to clamber to the Rex's rail. Stralla's seamen met them with a blast from the Rex's fire hose. The Warren party fished out their men, returned to shore, where a stronger squadron was organized, including ships of the Coast Guard and Fish & Game Commission. The 600 patrons were returned to shore during a truce, at dawn, and then the Warren fleet anchored or cruised around the Rex, promising to starve its commander & crew into submission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chance on the High Seas | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...first quarter's-but only because the Corporation decided to cut depreciation charges by $700,000. Three days later Mr. Stettinius had no happier prospects when Montana's Senator Burt Wheeler threw a spanner into steel and other durable goods industries by defeating Mr. Roosevelt's rail equipment plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Steelspeakers | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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