Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wives whose husbands like to fly-you are invited to accompany your husband on his next flight between San Francisco and Los Angeles as a guest of United Air Lines."* Last week U. A. L.'s paid travel over the 345-mile airline jumped 20% as 172 wives took guest rides. This week United Air Lines and T. W. A. are getting together to offer free trips, good for 30 days, to wives accompanying husbands on any schedule of the Chicago-Newark route...
...morning, near the end of a noisy five-hour mass meeting, 350 American Newspaper Guild members from the Hearst Herald & Examiner and American tore up picket signs, canceled a threatened strike, accepted a one-year Guild contract offered by nervous little Herald & Examiner Publisher Emanuel ("Manny") Levi, who also took over the American fortnight ago. The contract provides that no pay cuts or discharges can be made in any department for three months, after that only through arbitration. No editorial salaries can be lowered for one year, but neither can the editorial men strike during that period...
...wife on Saturday nights: "Look for that damned husband of yours in Cahokia Creek tomorrow morning!" On July 2, 1917 the famous race riot broke out, 34 Negroes and eight white men were slaughtered-18 of them before 23-year-old Paul Anderson's eyes. He took a hotel room in East St. Louis, swashed the blood off his shoes, ferreted out a stack of evidence which helped send 20 roughnecks to prison...
...evolutional link between ape and man was less missing than mended last week, as two separate conversations between humans and chimpanzees took place...
Shocked, Dean Noe said nothing as he accepted the bishop's verdict. The dean had been unable to go to a diocesan convention in Knoxville because, at the last minute, Mrs. Noe took ill, collapsed. Because of that convention, no weekday services were held in the Cathedral, and for the first time ousted Dean Noe went for a week without the communion bread & wine which had previously solaced, and partially nourished, him. Some 30 members of the parish were reported anxious to join him in his fast, but he attempted to discourage them. At week...