Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Authorized a $15,000,000 start and a total of $277,000,000 appropriation to three-track the (now two-track) locks of the Panama Canal. Representative Ed Izac of California, bemedaled War veteran, pleaded vainly for the 114-year-old dream of a Nicaraguan Canal, which would take ten years to build, cost $800,000,000 (Panama Canal's original cost...
...reserves, sit tight behind its Maginot Line and see what happened. A hint in favor of the last course comes from a remark General Gamelin made when asked if the French had considered making an early drive on the German Limes: "What! I do not propose to start the war by a battle of Verdun...
...Secretary Hull made the denunciation off the State Department's own bat, suddenly dramatically, after dinner one evening in time to catch the next morning's front pages. Immediate foreign effect was to shrink Japan's swelled head over making Britain knuckle under and to start Japan fuming worriedly about her source of war materials after next January when the U. S. embargoes could be voted...
...then caught and passed Ford, had suffered four full weeks from an ingenious new C. I. O. strike technique. On July 5, when C. I. O. began striking eleven key plants where 1940 models' jigs, dies and tools are built, General Motors had a week's start on Chrysler, which had been set back two weeks by another C. I. O. strike. Now General Motors was a week behind Chrysler, which planned to open its Plymouth plant August...
...under his own silks. A small string, however, that always commands attention are the dozen or so offered each year by the Belair Stud of Collington, Md. For Belair's owner, 63-year-old Millionaire William Woodward, Chairman of The Jockey Club, whose 50 members regulate the sport from start to finish, is not only one of the most successful stable owners of the past decade. He is the decade's most successful breeder...