Word: rr
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Workers on the 17-mile crisscross tracks exasperatingly dubbed SS&VV RR (Sling Something and Vinegar Valley Railroad), which serve a dump storing $4 billion worth of U.S. ordnance, were busier than they had ever been. At another similarly large British dump there was a similar bustle. The U.S. Army borrowed the British design for bridges, the British borrowed the U.S. K-ration but substituted condensed tea for coffee...
While he put his back yard in order Lazaro Cardenas also had an explanation to rr:..:e concerning relations with his big next-door neighbor. He called in a batch of U. S. correspondents to explain some misunderstandings about the now-you-see-it-now-you-don't embargo on mercury shipments to Japan. There had never been any embargo, the President said. Export of mercury and molybdenum was suspended while the Government investigated reports that shipments of the metals had been smuggled in from the U. S. When the reports proved false, export was resumed. Although the President...
...Voice gliss.) Who-oo-oo? Ww-wh-er-rr? Wh-aa-aa-t? (Doorbell rings) Newspapermen ring doorbells...
...Francisco, stands the pillared portico of Crocker First National Bank, a rich, conservative institution that is something of a landmark in West Coast banking. It was founded as a private banking house in 1883 by the late Charles Crocker, one of the quadrumvirate that built Southern Pacific RR.* He wanted to leave his son a bank. Son William Henry Crocker began as a clerk, was made president ten years later. Meantime the bank had taken out a national charter, and for the next 40 years prospered exceedingly on the best West Coast accounts. In 1926 it gained more fat accounts...
...half of them are owned by a few big insurance companies like Metropolitan Life ($6,852,000), Prudential ($3,000,000), New York Life ($1.300.000). Its junior creditors are not junior bondholders but the RFC ($3,000,000). Railroad Credit Corp. ($1,300,000) and Western Pacific RR Corp...