Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emery & Paint" In 1932 the U. S. Railroad System operated at a net deficit of $139,000,000. Last year it cut this loss down to about $40,000,000. But the return on its invested capital was only 1.8%. Yet during Depression two eastern trunk lines have spent or will shortly spend a sum sufficient to build and equip a system as big as Atlantic Coast Line R.R. New York Central's improvements on Man- hattan's West Side call for a total outlay of $175,000,000. Pennsylvania's great electrification and terminal program...
...autopsy by neutral Dutch physicians would have proved or disproved the charge that Nazis drugged van der Lubbe into the amazing apathy he showed throughout his trial for life. Though his old father asked for the head and trunk of his son, Public Prosecutor Werner insisted on burying the remains of Marinus van der Lubbe at Leipzig...
...were slightly hurt; near Mesa, Ariz. Born in Kansas, he rose from newsboy to professional base-bailer, streetcar conductor, stage electrician. When comedians remembered and used his quips, he decided to use them himself, toured in vaudeville with a partner named Moran who died of pneumonia. He ran a trunk factory in Cleveland, returned to the stage with Comedian George Searcy who called himself Moran and was Mack's "feeder" in half a dozen Broadway shows and in the famed "Two Black Crows." Died. Paul Kochanski, 46, violinist; of abdominal disorders; in Manhattan. Born in Warsaw, he made...
...than the middle-priced cars. On the assumption that almost any 1934 car can go 80 m.p.h. speed had ceased to be a prime selling point. In some models double spare tires have been taken out of the front fenders and one spare concealed inside the rear-end streamlining. Trunk racks have practically disappeared...
Accurate news was hard to get since the rioters' first act was to cut every trunk telephone line in sight. Most conspicuous leader was one Sergeant Pip Sopena, lately transferred from the Ministry of War to a recruiting office in Badajoz for suspected Communism. Seventy-eight people were killed, many more wounded before the Government with a sigh of relief could declare the revolt well under control...