Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest attraction was, of course, the Century of Progress, which on Sunday broke its previous attendance record (272,000 on Aug. 25) to ring up 361,000 paid admissions and rang up another 240,000 Monday when Recovery Administrator Hugh Johnson talked on Labor. But Chicagoland had much else to offer. In suburban Highland Park Virginia Van Wie retained her women's national golf title (see p. 42). In suburban Glenview, 30,000 a day watched the four-day International Air Races (see p. 44). At the Morrison Hotel holy men gathered for the World Fellowship of Faiths conference...
...departmental reorganizations to the Capitol for approval. There was a short, stabbing outcry of pain from politicians but no positive veto action by House or Senate. Therefore by law the orders became automatically operative at the end of 60 days. In the name of efficiency and economy the President rang down the curtain...
...unfinished 73,000-ton liner "No. 534." It lay last week in its Clydebank, Scotland yards, unfinished for lack of a Government subsidy. Designed to make 30 knots, cross the Atlantic in four days flat to beat the North German Lloyd's Bremen & Europa, "No. 534" last rang with hammers two years ago. But at a luncheon after the ceremony last week Cunard's plow-chinned Board Chairman Sir Percy Bates uprose to say that No. 534 "had survived all sorts of criticism. The theory and design of the ship are correct. The ship is the right size...
Yellow lights glowed from all four floors of an abandoned cigar factory in Newark, N. J. one night last week. A sickle moon hung in the sky. From the upper windows came susurrous sounds, growing louder and louder, a whisper repeated a hundredfold, until finally the whole neighborhood rang and rang with the cries: "Isn't it wonderful! Peace! Peace! Peace! Ain't it wonderful! OOooh! Peace! Peace...
...Church's great bell rang travelers into town at. nine every night, called Dick Whittington back to become Lord Mayor of London. Slowly its 17th Century Tower built by lamed Sir Christopher Wren gathered new bells. Slowly the twelve gathered green patinas of verdigris, cracked; the clappers rusted, the machinery clogged. The Tube under the church shook the steeple dangerously. In 1928. after 250 years, the Bow bells fell silent...