Word: roading
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There ought to be less discounting of the part which American bankers played in helping America along that road to war preceding...
Leather-lunged Yardlings range the length of Soldiers Field Road fall afternoons with Jaako Mikkola, sturdy Crimson track coach, cracking the whip. Others, not seeking numerals, engage in informal track practice under Bill Neufeld...
First. A President didn't get that way through being "unpolitical." Herbert Hoover's Addresses Upon the American Road, 1933-1938, is crowded with proof that an ex-President never stops campaigning for the good old party-and to hell with the country...
...northeast by Belgium's new Albert Canal, built as much for defense as for commerce, and beyond that by low-lying Dutch country that can be flooded if necessary. But even with fortresses and canals and emergency breaches in the dikes, the Flanders Plain offers the least difficult road to Paris and the French channel ports. It is a road that should be captured in summer. Flanders mud is a potent delayer during the sloppy months of the West European winter. The Belgians hope they can remain neutral in the next war, and King Leopold is a strong neutralite...
...Harvey Crowley Couch, second largest stockholder in Kansas City Southern (largest: Amsterdam Trust Office, The Netherlands), became its president. Between expanding his inland public-utility empire and working for the New Deal as director of RFC (1932-34), Ozarker Couch had also obtained control of Louisiana & Arkansas. Of that road his younger brother (by 13 years) Charles Peter Couch has been president since Harvey gave...