Word: types
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political ambitions has Kansas' oldtime editor Ed Howe, now 81, who last week broke silence in an interview published in Country Home: "I never liked the Roosevelt type of man. They're too much for show, too quick on the trigger for safety, too cozy with idealistic leadership. The antics of the present Administration are the craziest I've ever seen. As a man who has had to run a business, I'll admit that you have to experiment a little, take a little risk; but I do object to a lot of new thought politicians up in Washington taking...
...July 9.) In a foreword the harassed Nazi editor explained "Political events necessitated many corrections in this volume, which already had been printed." To reassure prospective purchasers who might be afraid to buy a book containing traitors' names, no matter how carefully pasted over a line of heavy type on the title page announced "THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST PARTY HAS NO OBJECTION WHATEVER TO THE PUBLICATION OF THIS VOLUME...
Last week Florida East Coast's receivers bluntly told the holders of an issue of its equipment trust bonds to come & get their 20 mountain-type locomotives, five switching engines, 200 box cars, 100 ballast cars, three passenger cars and 20 cabooses. With traffic what it was, said the receivers, the road did not need the equipment anyway. In normal times the bondholders might sell the equipment to another road. But fearing that they could do nothing with the cars and locomotives except put them in their own back yards, the bondholders protested, and a protective committee persuaded the receivers...
...London Times of July 6 carried the following among its classified ads, printed in its peculiarly ancient type...
...Rumania had to pay 25% more than Jugoslavia paid for the same type of equipment," said General Cihofhi. "As a matter of fact the price at which the contract was let was a great deal higher than the price at which Skoda first wished to sell...