Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sonorous Bavarian accent, Herr Wagner emphasized Herr Hitler's main points: 1) He bluntly warned German industrialists that if they cannot speed production to make the Third Reich economically self-sufficient, state capitalism will follow. This sounded more ominous in light of persistent rumors from Berlin last week that Minister of Economics Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, who has kept the Reich going by rabbit-out-of-hat financing, will resign because his economic views differ widely from those of Economic Dictator General Goring. 2) Timed to coincide with the blistering notes exchanged by Russia and Italy over the Mediterranean crises...
...been strengthened by beefsteak breakfasts, for the championship. Miss Lizana had beaten Miss Jedrzejowska twice before this season in Europe, but Miss Lizana prefers ice cream and candy to meat. Consequently it came as a surprise to most spectators when she proceeded to give the sinewy Pole a third trouncing by pounding her slow backhand, catching her flat-footed with deft drop-shots, 6-4, 6-2. Then, after being photographed with her first U. S. championship cup, first won by a foreigner since Betty Nuthall did it in 1930, little (5 ft.) Champion Lizana swooned away...
...Detroit last week assembled more than 200 people united by a common passion-the construction and operation of model railroads with such elaborate attention to detail and conformity to scale that they feel entitled to resent the word "toys." This was the third annual convention of the National Model Railroad Association, and its members discussed such things as the best ways of ballasting track and handling steam boilers with as much warmth as the operating vice president of the Southern would discuss parallel maintenance problems with the superintendent of his Atlanta division...
...Bendix, gaudy, onetime Winner Roscoe Turner was eliminated before the start when his ship caught fire on the ground at Los Angeles. For a time the lead was held by Jacqueline Cochran Odlum, wife of investment trust Tycoon Floyd B. Odlum, only woman entered. She reached Cleveland in third place, won $3,000 plus $2,500 offered to the first woman to finish. The $5,000 second prize went to Earl Ortman of Los Angeles, who nearly lost consciousness for lack of oxygen when he mounted to 22,000 ft. over Kansas to avoid a storm. Winner was wealthy Sportsman...
...these increases went into effect, they would cost the roads $639,000,000, or 95% of last year's net operating income. One-third of U. S. railroads are already bankrupt and others hard-pressed to meet their fixed charges alone. Said Railway Age: "Unless the series of developments now rapidly tending to bankrupt virtually the entire railway system of the U. S. is immediately arrested, the American people may suddenly awaken to a realization that government ownership and operation of railways have become almost or actually unavoidable...