Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France were "co-ordinated." A fund was established into which they were to pay profits, from which they were to extract deficits. The roads never made any profits, so their losses were covered in national budgets. Last week's move to take over the roads was another step along the French path towards nationalization, the Government having already announced it would control arms and munition factories...
...Vera Cruz to President James Knox Polk before his own War Department heard about it. With speed in harvesting news, Publisher Abell also wanted speed in printing it. and to this end, he and his Philadelphia partners were first to use the Hoe cylinder press.* Next great progressive step of the Sun was its Iron Building, put up in 1851, first office structure in America made on the steel-frame principle of the modern skyscraper. Here the Sun settled down for a heyday which was ended by the Civil...
...support either candidate in last year's Presidential election, both Suns are liberal, but somewhat leery of the New Deal. Respected abroad and an integral part of the civic scenery at home, with a brand-new Pulitzer Prize for their trophy room (see p. 41), the two Suns step off into their second century with a Sunday circulation of 221,389, a joint readership of 298,458 every...
...Turk is not unkind according to his lights. He thinks it cruel to drown litters of kittens, he therefore puts them on the dustheap! In every side street you meet the cats, old and emaciated cats, cats with one eye blind, kittens toddling with unsteady step, cats with skin diseases, cats eternally scratching themselves, dying cats run over by cars on the roadside. When I asked residents in Istanbul what could be done about the cats, they shrugged their shoulders. 'Istanbul was menaced in its old wooden houses by a plague of rats; cats were necessary...
...identity of Messrs. Young & Kolbe was then established by their invitation to step down the corridor to another suite for refreshments. While Waldorf waiters poured drinks and passed canapes, the newshawks turned to in an effort to find out something about Messrs. Young, Kolbe & Kirby and how much they had paid...