Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...designation of special parks for picnicking...
...White House to put on his cutaway. Then with his wife, mother, daughter-in-law Betsey (Mrs. Jimmy) and Naval Aide Dan J. Callaghan he went to his front-row pew in St. John's Church, where Rector Oliver J. Hart III conducted a special anniversary service and prayed...
...protection of buildings against bomb splinters Britain now has on hand 127,000,000 sandbags. For civilian protection the Government has accumulated 50,000,000 ordinary gas masks and 940,000 special masks for men who will be on outdoor duty even during air raids. Britain's population is 44,500,000. Since millions in the rural sections will probably never need a gas mask, many a Briton in London and other big cities will have a mask not only at home but at the office...
...many of the more significant paragraphs have been unofficially translated by correspondents and special writers that practically no surprises are left. Among the livelier, least truthful and lesser-known assertions, however, one about the U. S. is worth attention...
After the 1925 Legislature provided that the city must approve any unification plan devised by the Transit Commission, the Commission's Special Counsel Samuel Untermyer in 1930 offered to pay $489,000.000 for both companies. This was the highest price ever suggested, but B. M. T.'s square-jawed Chairman Gerhard Melvin Dahl held out for more...