Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British motordom. In no other country are motorists so admirably self-disciplined. Over 5,000 neatly uniformed service men of the Automobile Association and Royal Automobile Club ceaselessly patrol the Kingdom's roads. They informally direct traffic when necessary, supply information, carry first aid kits and minor spare parts, change tires and make small repairs for members of the A.A. or R.A.C. and salute smartly whenever a member's car flashes...
Last week 50,000 people poured into small (pop. 5,521) Fairmont, Minn. Besides hotels every spare room for miles around was filled. Though 23 restaurant stands were set up to peddle hamburgers, hot dogs and coffee, many a prudent farmwife brought along great hampers of cold fried chicken, head cheese, hams, doughnuts, layer cakes and pies. Twenty-four State police directed the jammed traffic of cars from as far away as Kansas and Ohio. More exciting than any football game to Fairmont's visitors was that day's sporting event-the 11th annual National Corn Husking Championship...
...many years we have admired the originality of the Harvard Faculty in thinking up semi-studious ways of filling in a spare hour, For example, there is that society of thrill-hunters known as the Odd Volume Club. Ah to be an Odd Volumer...
...price apparently went by the board. On "technical grounds" the Chilean Government decided to buy British. At one clip some $500,000 worth of orders were lost to U. S. firms. As a minuscule sop, the Defense Ministry admitted that Chile probably will buy from the U. S. spare parts for the U. S. planes she already has and intends to buy several U. S. Fairchild airplane cameras. As delighted British salesmen stood drinks all around Chilean officers growled, "This may teach the damned Yankees a lesson...
...stock jumped from $18 per share to $23 on the American Railway Association's announcement last week, New York from $13 per share to $18. Both stocks would have soared astronomically if the outlook had been as sweet as it first appeared. Most railroads have no cash to spare for such improvements, even though they will save money in the end. Prospects of PWA brake loans are bleak...