Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vanderbilt then dominated the swift rising New York Central. His chief rival was the Pennsylvania, but both railroads kept to their own backyards until a scandalously promoted third line, the West Shore, began paralleling Vanderbilt's tracks along the west bank of the Hudson to the Port of New York. Angry clear through he decided that if the Central was to suffer from competition close to home, so was the Pennsylvania. Acquiring the "South Penn" charter, Vanderbilt declared a railroad war, sent 300 engineers and thousands of laborers trooping into the rugged, coal-bearing Alleghenies, with orders to build...
...Liberal returned in 30 years by the county in which he stood. Ontario at that time had been mainly ruled by Conservatives for nearly a generation. Toronto had become the stronghold of Tories who felt so secure that years of niggling graft were heading the Province for a sudden, swift, pro-Liberal reaction to "throw the rascals out." It came soon, and ebullient young Mr. Hepburn could not have chosen more shrewdly the moment for his political debut. Increasingly sleek, fashionably dressed and attentive to women (although happily married, albeit childless*) "Mitch" at first used to go about saying frankly...
Meanwhile, in guarded fashion Moscow correspondents received from well-connected Russian friends last week hints that "our great leader Stalin, observing how machines wear out under the swift 'Bolshevik tempo' of our Five-Year Plans, has found that many of the human cogs have also been worn until they need replacement, and for this Stalin is wisely turning to our Youth...
...last week of July 1914, when the U. S. was still as isolated journalistically as it was politically, the threat of war in Europe was not even considered a contributing factor in the stockmarket's desultory decline. Then the unthinkable happened. In swift succession the great European markets closed their doors, and the selling of an entire world, hysterically trying to convert securities into cash, concentrated on the New York Stock Exchange. Bravely the governors announced their determination to keep open, but on the morning of July 31, after one look at the overnight accumulation of selling orders, they...
...confused with the old patent medicine SSS ("Swift's Sure Specific") which used to be sold as a "blood purifier" (i.e., syphilis cure), and now is sold as a tonic...