Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was not a cent. Dr. Tugwell kept smiling when these facts were brought out, admitted that under the terms of the bill his 17,000 employes would have no funds to work with, that, except for rural rehabilitation (taken over by WPA), all his other labors (subsistence homesteads, suburban resettlement, purchase of submarginal lands, etc.) would come to a full stop...
...bleak stone villa in London's suburban Kingston Hill, a tall, dazed, blue-eyed boy of 16 last week got a long-distance call from Cairo. It was his mother, Queen Nazli. "My son," she sobbed, "you are King." Egypt's fat and flabby King Fuad had just died of heart attack and gangrene of the mouth (TIME...
Speaking next day at the new aviation school in suburban Gatow, General Göring made a bad break by referring to Adolf Hitler as "Supreme Wrar Lord." Since such a title still has a sinister, Kaiserish smell in international noses, Minister of Propaganda Goebbels promptly scotched...
...year Girard's able President Herrick reaches 70. Last week Girard named as his successor Dr. Merle Middleton Odgers, Dean of the University of Pennsylvania's College of Liberal Arts for Women. Lank, sharp-faced, 35, Merle Odgers is married, lives with his wife and daughter in suburban Upper Darby. An ardent classicist, he may circumvent one of the last of Founder Girard's barriers: "I do not forbid, but I do not recommend the Greek and Latin languages...
...Korda last year arranged to attack the U. S. market (15,000 theatres to Great Britain's 4,000) on a large scale by buying a partnership in United Artists, which releases his pictures in the U. S. For years the English cinema industry functioned in converted garrets, suburban garden backyards and a few vacant lots at Elstree. Producer Korda bought an enormous tract of land at Denham and set about building a $5,000,000 studio which, now almost complete, is as big and as well equipped as anything in Hollywood...