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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jimmy Hines always tried to take good care of his family. They were devoted to him and he to them. They lived in various upper west side apartments and finally in 1930 Mrs. Hines bought a cottage at Long Beach, L. I., financed with a mortgage taken by a friend of Hines...
...declared. As peace negotiations began in Budapest, Hungary claimed a complete victory. Official Hungarian statements said that the railroad was captured, eleven Slovak planes had been brought down and 17 destroyed on the ground; that the only Hungarian loss was the capture of two men who had accidentally taken a wrong road. Slovak dispatches listed 23 Hungarian dead and 55 wounded. German communiques insisted the whole thing was just a border incident...
...fact that no actual German military aggression had taken place gave Russia and the democracies a chance to turn their eyes from the eastbound Nazi steam roller. The German-Rumanian treaty, which in time is expected to reduce if not wipe out all commerce between Rumania and other States, provides that...
...home over a rocky byroad. Stevens used to hang back until most of the field had harried each other into the ditches and hedges, then he would ride triumphantly in over the carnage. Wily Tim Hyde guided Workman that way until Becher's and the Canal Turn had taken their toll on the second round. Then, when the field was at Valentine's Brook again, he nosed Workman in among the leaders...
...transportation. Racer Siegal sold his share in a Chicago Loop garage for $1,090 in 1936, hired three workmen, and in a corner of a West Side factory began making Moto-Skoots. By the end of the year he had sold 186 of them at $109 apiece and had taken over the whole factory. In 1937 the output was 2,700. This year, looking back on retail sales of more than $500,000 for 1938, Siegal has 75 men at work in a new factory on Chicago's South Side, likes to hear his employes call him the Henry...