Word: sinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following is the second in a series of four articles written exclusively for the Crimson on condition in Washington. Mr. Cross was born in Never sink, New York, and educated at the Ellenville High School. He received his degree from the University of Cornell Law School, where he was selected for the All-American Basketball team. He was elected six times to the New York State Assembly, and was personal secretary to President Roosevelt during his term as Governor of New York State. Recently he has been appointed Assistant Sollcitor General in the Department of Justice in the Reconstruction Finance...
When the World Series is being played, when wars are waged, when steamships sink, thick crowds jam the sidewalks of Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue at E Street to read the bulletins in the Washington Post's windows. A straw-hatted crowd jammed the sidewalk one day last week, surged up the front stairs of the grey stone pile, but not to read bulletins. The crowd was there to see the 56-year-old newspaper auctioned (TIME...
...Postal was bravely bucking the competition of Western Union but could show no profit. Mr. Behn, who had watched I. T. & T.'s profits climb in six years from $1,930,000 to $17,732,000, now saw them tumble to less than half that sum, and finally sink out of sight into the bog of a three-million-dollar deficit. Gone were the days when an excited public was eager to pay $149 for I. T. & T. stock earning $3 a share. The stock earned nothing, sold...
...Last week Homestake stock passed 200- only stock quoted at that figure on the New York Exchange in more than a year. * His militant peak, however, was when he ordered his London man to sink a steamer in the Suez Canal to keep the Spanish fleet fr.om going after Admiral Dewey at Manila...
...soon heard men hailing me from the water. I stopped the ship, turned on all lights, lowered boats and put life boats over the sides. I saw mattresses and wreckage and pulled one mat over the side of the boat. We got four men. I saw some men sink before we could get to them. After this no more men were found...