Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canada today carries more freight by air than any other country, may well become "the air crossroads of the world." From London to Shanghai via Newfoundland, Edmonton, Alaska, the Bering Straits and Siberia is 4,000 miles shorter than via the route now flown from New York across the Pacific...
...different story was told by those strategic commodities (especially rubber & tin) of which the U. S. is short and may be shorter at the whim of Japan. Spot rubber held during the worst of the panic "at around 23?, ended the week down only 2∧ because of general liquidating pressure...
...champion until they had seen him in another race. Last week, at Pimlico. 55,000 racing fans turned out to see Colonel Bradley's glamor colt run in the $75,000 Preakness, second of the Big Three U. S. races for three-year-olds (1/16 of a mile shorter than the Derby...
Cordingley is probably as long off the tee as any collegian in America, outdriving his teammates by 50 yards on the average shot. Graves, kingpin of the New England college linksmen, is much shorter with woods but is a scrambler par excellence. Both he and Cordingley, however, are good iron players who rarely miss a green badly. They will both be three year men, sneaking into the number five and six jobs as Sophomores and working their way to the top as Juniors. A third returning letterman on this year's team is Junior Watty Dickerman, teaming with Don Elbel...
...scarcely diminished it with Europa in Limbo. Robert Forsythe wrote of him, in New Masses: "I not only consider him the most brilliant writer in the English language today but by long odds the most learned and profound man of our time." Briffault's third novel, Fandango, is shorter and a little less pretentious than the others. In every other respect it is like them. Nominally the story of Beautiful Carlotta von Goerlitz and of what she sees in Spain on the eve of Civil War, in Vienna after Anschluss, in Paris as an exile, it is actually...