Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seatrain New Orleans between New Orleans and Havana. Using a giant crane at each terminal, he has cut 40% off the usual stevedore charges, saved two loadings for shippers using rail-water transportation between the U. S. and Cuba. In the past three years Seatrain Lines Inc. has carried twice as much tonnage between New Orleans and Havana as the three competing shipping lines which operate four times as many vessels...
...Twice before had Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores suffered exile from his native land for Mother Church. But never before had he been up in an airplane. His expression of dazed surprise changed to one of prayerful alarm as the plane, with two detectives and a kinsman of the Archbishop's aboard, swept him up over the mountains towards the coast...
Number of words in the Lytton Report: 100,000. Eminently readable three-decker novels of twice that length used to be tossed off with ease by Lord Lytton's grandfather, famed Victorian Novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Such tossing is in the Lytton blood. The Report, as the London Times promptly declared last week, is "an admirable and exhaustive survey, compiled with the literary distinction traditional in the family of the Chairman...
...soon saw her fun ended. Smiling, pert-nosed Virginia ("Gino") Van Wie (to rhyme with "tee") was too much for her (4 & 3) and the final gallery gathered around to watch a match often played before. Miss Van Wie v. cool, collected Glenna Collett Vare. five times the champion, twice Miss Van Wie's mistress in national finals...
Following the address, an election of a fictitious national council was conducted, using the proportional representation system, and counting the ballots under the plan now used in Cincinnati, Ohio. On the first ballot, Hoover polled nearly twice as many first choices as he needed for election. The first choices above the necessary number were passed to other candidates, who were elected as follows: Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Alfred E. Smith, and Owen D. Young...