Word: start
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Somewhat battered by financial adversity, the far-flung empire of William Randolph Hearst remains the greatest conglomeration of publishing enterprises in the U. S. Hearst's 21 daily and 16 Sunday newspapers may not be able to start a war or elect a President, as they used to, but their circulation of 4,453,579 daily and 6,856,793 Sunday still stands supreme.* The highest law in this empire has always been what followed the electrifying phrase: "The Chief says-." Today, the potency of this phrase is a subject of much discussion in the newspaper world. "The Chief...
...three years Lufthansa pilots have flown the North Atlantic as cool as cream: they made eight flights in 1936, 14 in 1937, and this year they will make 28, two a week, with the Nordmeer, Nordwind and Nordstern, all Hamburg Ha. 1395 with four Diesel engines, a catapult start, and a payload of only 880 Ib. Lufthansa would like to start flying mail any day now, but it has been allowed to use Pan American's sea base at Port Washington only if it waits till Pan American can match it flight for flight...
...passenger Clippers (biggest transport planes in the world) in Seattle, Wash. Unlike the English Composites and the German Catapults, the Pan American Clipper will heave itself out of the water on its own power. But until it or some other U. S. plane is ready to start a regular schedule, no mail, no passengers, will be flown across the North Atlantic by anyone else...
...search for the toxicologist begins in a bar, where they start drinking on empty stomachs, continues via other bars, where they pick up strange stories of the toxicologist's victims. They get involved with drunks, with the toxicologist's servants, with the wife and child of a man sentenced to life imprisonment on the toxicologist's evidence. Meantime, Wilt reels off his unwritten stories, long since ignoring poor Bernie, who whimpers because Wilt won't stop to eat, because he has been seduced and because he has lost his money. Unfortunately, the comic side of this...
...confesses, The New Model is mostly in rough pencil sketch. But he is immensely confident in his expectation of shortly going into mass production. For the U. S., all that is now needed is to create a Labor Party, enroll a couple of hundred thousand more Communists to start the Labor Party off on the Left foot...