Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Supreme over all London's buses, coaches, trams, suburban & underground railways is the London Passenger Transport Board of seven. Created in 1933, it is a Government bureau in charge of coordinating all London transport lines within 30 miles of Charing Cross, has power over salaries, equipment, elimination of unneeded competition, establishment of new routes, etc., but leaves the actual management in private hands. Since the companies under its control gain cheap credit, stability, and profits proportionate to their value, the Board has been universally welcomed...
...transatlantic crossing. He knew of course, that this was just a figure of speech for there was no Blue Ribbon. Why not, thought Harold Hales, supply a real prize for transatlantic liners to contest for? It took 40 years to save up the money but last week, in the suburban London villa he calls Selahdale, he had a real $4,000 cup called the Hales Blue Ribbon Trophy, was ready to award it. Sighed he: "The only thing that really worried me was that someone else with more money might get in ahead of me. The Haleses never amounted...
...with remarkably clear continuity pictures of Golden Gloves boxers in action, followed with a strip of Pitcher Dizzy Dean from windup to finish. Cameraddicts knew that no ordinary motion picture film could produce such distinct "stills." The Tribune's camera was invented by one Lewis H. Moomaw of suburban Wilmette, a onetime small producer of Hollywood cinemas, lately in the engineering department of Stewart-Warner Corp. All he would say about his camera was that it contains a prism, will take a series of quick flashes faster than a cinema camera...
...saying, Father Coughlin departed mopping his brow, left town next day to spend the night with a friendly plutocratic, capitalistic stockbroker named Francis P. Keelon at swank suburban Larchmont...
Before Georgia went to the polls May 15 for a liquor referendum, Rev. Henry Elmer McBrayer of Atlanta's suburban Lakewood Heights, unlike most voter Methodist ministers in the State, worked hard & long for Repeal. Last week Governor Talmadge certified that Repeal had been beaten by 243 votes.* Same day, Methodist McBrayer was suspended from his pastorate, charged with "aiding and abetting the sale of intoxicating liquor as a beverage in violation of the discipline of the Church." Told to stand trial or surrender his credentials, he chose trial...