Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sixteen days, 19 hours, 4 minutes after leaving New York, Widow Adams was back again. She had flown all the way. Total mileage: 25,000. Cost: $2,500. Chortled she: "That's ten cents a mile. Can you travel cheaper than that...
Married. Douglas ("Wrong Way") Corrigan, 32, and Elizabeth Marvin, 32. public-school teacher; on the first anniversary of his take-off for Ireland; in San Antonio...
Ladies and Gentlemen (by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht, from a play by Ladislaus Bush-Fekete; produced by Gilbert Miller). Decade ago the late Minnie Maddern Fiske huffed, barked, flounced her way through a typical virtuoso's vehicle, Ladies of the Jury. Hungarian Ladislaus Bush-Fekete (né Bus-Fekete: the "h" was his idea of Americanizing the name) made a play with the same situation-a resourceful woman swinging the rest of a jury around from a verdict of guilty to acquittal in a murder case...
...faced Board Chairman Robert Ralph Young of Allegheny Corp., who has been in the middle of a hectic three-year fight to get control of Allegheny's railroad substructures, notably prosperous Chesapeake & Ohio R. R. Bob Young believes that at every turn Morgan interests blocked his way. One of his retaliations has been to get in the way of Morgan Stanley & Co. every time it goes after a railroad securities issue...
...Three U. S. utility magnates, Floyd Carlisle (Niagara Hudson and Consolidated Edison) and Wendell Willkie (Commonwealth & Southern), are lawyers Only C. (for Clarence) E. (for Edward) Groesbeck (Electric Bond & Share) is an operating man, trained climbing poles instead of chasing commas. Hard-boiled Mr. Groesbeck, who goes his own way, is also different in another respect. He figures that the Administration has the money and the power, that there is more percentage in trading with the New Deal than in bucking it. Last week this notion of his began to pay dividends...