Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feud had begun harmlessly enough. McCracken in the Mail twitted the Frenches with having failed to pay their light bill, having the current shut off. Once he sent Mrs. French an anonymous letter ridiculing the Plaindealer. She took it to the sheriff. Then one day Mrs. French printed a story about a Mr. & Mrs. McCracken being arrested in Reno on narcotics charges. McCracken retaliated by printing stories of various persons named French being arrested for various crimes. The afternoon before the shooting he printed one about a man named French being hanged as a horse-thief in Montana...
...past. To make a dull picture about the 1886 building of the Canadian Pacific Railway through the Rockies, climaxed by the fight between Canadian Pacific's William Cornelius Van Home and Great Northern's James Jerome Hill, sounds difficult. Silent Barriers-for which Director Milton Rosmer took cast and crew to Revelstoke, B. C. and endangered all their lives to photograph a forest fire-makes it look discouragingly easy. With the exception of a few shots of the fire, mountain peaks and raging rapids, the picture contains nothing that could not have been better photographed in a studio...
Last autumn Transcontinental & Western Air infuriated its two major rivals, United and American Airlines, by cutting its fares about to railroad levels (TIME, Nov. 9). TWA took this risky step for two reasons: to counteract the usual traffic slump in winter and to counterbalance the fact that both United and American temporarily had more luxurious equipment. American got the first Douglas DC-3 sleepers last year, did not dare put an extra fare on them in the face of TWA's cuts. United, however, did add a $2 surcharge for the non-stop run from Newark to Chicago which...
...Capricornus took off from Southampton with five men, one woman and 65 mailsacks to fly non-stop to Alexandria on a final experimental trip. Over Lyons a few hours later the British pilot ran into a severe snowstorm. Inept like most European airmen at blind flying, he got lost, circled through the murk while the radioman sent out an SOS. Before he could get his bearings, the pilot scraped his wing on a fir tree, smacked full tilt into the side of Mont du Beaujolais, killed everyone but the radioman, who crawled two miles through the snow for help...
...Toronto and then on Toronto's old St. George hockey team, amateur champions. He got his business start in Massey-Harris (farm implements), shifted to brokerage, setting up his own firm, now H. B. Housser & Co., in 1917. For years he had been a power in Exchange affairs, took an active hand in negotiating the merger that really made Toronto a miners' mart, played a big part in planning the new building to house it. At first he was disturbed by Architect S. H. Maw's modernism, for Broker Housser is rated a Solid Citizen with...