Word: underlying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago the trim, silver-bodied California Clipper winged out of San Francisco Bay on its first dress rehearsal. At its controls, in luckless Pilot Musick's place, was tough, tanned oldtimer Captain John Tilton; in her vasty belly a ten-man crew, 18 assorted observers. Some 17 hours...
At Newport News, Va. one noon last week Anna Eleanor Roosevelt cracked a bottle of U. S. champagne over the steel prow of the biggest, costliest (34,000-ton, $17,000,000) passenger ship ever made in the U. S., christened her America. As 30,000 well-wishers gave a...
The carillonneur's Oxford is the Belgian National Carillon School at Malines, Belgium. There, under the watchful eye of the greatest living carillonneur, 77-year-old Jef Denyn, the neophyte carillonneur gets his final polish and diploma. It takes four or five years of study to make a good carillonneur...
With five minutes to go the Exchange governors took a hurried, panicky vote. The acting chairman was in his balcony above the Exchange floor and worried dealers were waiting for the gong to begin trading. (Noble had said it was not to ring until he gave the word.) Four minutes...
>U. S. exports for July fell below those for June and the first seven months of 1939 were almost 10% under 1938's not too exciting figures.