Word: skies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business is being ruined by cancelled orders, and the question comes up of whether the family should accept ruin or sell indirectly to the Italian government. They take the noble stand, when out of the sky drops James Madison Clevenger, the news magnate and former passionate admirer of Sara in her acting days. In spite of his cynicism and his occasional tossing over of an economics teacher to the Red-seeing rage of the populace, he reveals that he has built up a dike by means of most of the influential newspapers of the country against war propaganda from either...
...Park Avenue matron, sang it. Finally, after Mr. Musiker's tune had gone around the world ("they made a lullaby out of it in China" -to plink-plink accompaniment from the orchestra), Mr. Musiker came upon some students, presumably radical since they were singing Pie in the Sky. He was glad to give them his tune, for a marching song...
...like a modern Imagist poem or a sketch for a cinema continuity: "The entrance to the castle: The Guardsmen in the court, the faÇade, the lane between two walls. At the end, under a sort of vault, men seated, making a brown silhouette against a bit of sky...
Almost since the first scheduled airliner roared off U. S. runways and especially since traffic lanes were established in the sky, civilian pilots have contested the right of transport companies and airports to restrict their flying. This week, however, a set of re-codified and revised Civil Air Regulations, signed by Secretary of Commerce Roper, takes effect...
...promised raid, decided to stop at the Yangtze Hotel outside, the city wall because its roof commanded a good view of the railroad station, which they expected to be the prime object of the attack. Imagine their discomfiture next day when the Japanese planes droned out of the sky and headed not for the railroad station but for the power station, 300 yd. away from the Yangtze Hotel...