Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...episodes (each announced by old-fashioned subtitles) parade across the screen the high lights of 26 years (1844-1870) : the panting enthusiasm of the gold rush, mushrooming San Francisco, the lickety-split pony express, the careening overland stages, the Civil War's venomous fratricide, Reconstruction's remorseful hangover...
...World War. In old age "his soul expanded in its power and goodness." Peacefully dead at 71, he got magnificent funerals in Greece and England, canonization by the Church. In accordance with his last will, he was buried simply in his native Greek village, his enormous fortune split into a thousand bequests...
...Guffey-Vinson Act split the U. S. into 23 coal-producing districts, each with a branch office supervised from Washington by the B. C. C. Also created were ten minimum price areas. Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (covering Iowa and all the U. S. east of the Mississippi), which produce 80% of all U. S. soft coal, are those affected by last week's price setup. The rest of the U. S. will be put under a similar price code in a few weeks. In each of the 23 producing areas each quality and size of coal is classified according...
Last month President Cardenas neatly split the opposition by a deal with Mexican Eagle Oil Co. (an affiliate of British Royal Dutch-Shell, which controls 60% of Mexican oil production), yielding it full control of the rich Poza Rica field in return for royalties of 15% to 35% of the petroleum produced (TIME...
...they heard it. They put English lyrics to Bei Mir Bist Du Schön, retained the original title, carried it to Harms, their publishers. Harms, delighted with the plaintive, minor tune that sounded like a Hebrew lament in swing time, arranged with J. & J. Kammen Music Co. to split royalties from the English version between Chaplin & Cahn and Secunda & Jacobs...