Word: rebirth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rebirth. When Business is bad, railroad business is worse. When Business improves, so does railroad business. The U. S. railroad business began to roll out of its rusty industrial siding two years ago. By the beginning of last year it had clacked on to the main line and was chuffing up the hump of recovery. Last week, as 1936 came to an accounting close, dispatches of good news were coming in from all over the nation's rail system and the roar and smoke of recovery filled...
...conductors may still regard passengers as trespassers, but by & large the roads are out to make friends as they never were before. Faster freight schedules, highly-publicized high-speed trains, 8,000 air-conditioned passenger cars, freight pick-up-&-delivery service are all exciting evidences of the railroads' rebirth. Most spectacular bid for patronage was the 2? base passenger fare, inaugurated by southern and western roads where the traffic is light and forced on all roads last June by the Interstate Commerce Commission over the loud protests of the Pennsylvania, New York Central and New York, New Haven & Hartford...
...future profits) with the flashy Scripps-Howard Telegram, bought four years before. It was Publisher Howard who junked the morning and Sunday Worlds, announced to a skeptical city that the independent, crusading, liberal traditions of Joseph Pulitzer's great paper had suffered not death but "rebirth." Not until 1933, when the World-Telegram won a Pulitzer distinguished service award for a variety of effective campaigns, did New York City take Publisher Howard at his word. Manhattan publishers are notoriously close-mouthed about the balance sheets of their papers. Best opinion is that all New York newspapers cost...
...WHEN PRIMATE DANISH STATE CHURCH, THOUSANDS OF CHURCHMEN OF PRINCIPAL DENOMINATIONS ARE IN OXFORD GROUP, SUCH WORDS AS ''CULT" AND "NEW RELIGION" SEEM INVALID. TIME DOES NOT WANT TO HOLD UP IN THE U. S. THE SPIRITUAL RECOVERY OTHER NATIONS ARE FINDING THROUGH THIS MOVEMENT-A REBIRTH OF CHRISTIANITY FOR THE ORDINARY...
...breath the League was thus resurrected, and in the next Britannia, in consequence, was to dominate the Mediterranean against all comers. In the cheers of the House of Commons for this rebirth of the League of Nations & British Might as twins, millions of the King's subjects joined sincerely and without hypocrisy because honest Stanley Baldwin, while asking a cool billion for weapons, also told them on the radio last week: "I think you know me well enough now to know I am no militarist, and you can safely trust...