Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eighth round, Has-been Baer was staggering, half-blind, and choking from the blood he had been swallowing ever since the third round, when an inch-long gash was opened on the inside of his mouth. Young Nova, unable to wind up the gory performance any other way, kept pecking at Baer's bleeding mouth and eye, kept pummeling his hideously swollen cheek, kept pounding wildly at his wheezing body...
...take pleasure in announcing the appointment of Wrong-Way Corrigan as head of our Investment Research Department...
Coach fares (now 2½? a mile): on a sliding scale, beginning at 2¼? for round trips up to 100 miles each way, down to 1.7? for trips over 900 miles...
Pullman fares (now 3?): to 2.7? for trips over 900 miles; for upper berths (now run empty most of the time) ,2.7? one way, scaling down to 2.43? for round trips over 900 miles; corresponding cuts in the charges for upper berth Pullman space. (The Southern roads which have been operating at cut rates and have found them good, last week filed proposals with ICC for another 10% reduction in round-trip coach fares to a minimum...
...hoping cinema, running into an injunction is as painful and prohibitive as tripping over a bat on the way to first. Fortnight ago Jules W. Arndt Stein (Nicky Arnstein), the husband who filled Fannie Brice's heart when she first sang the torch song My Man in 1920, sued for an injunction (and $250,000 damages) against the Twentieth Century-Fox cinema Rose of Washington Square, a take-off on Nicky's & Fannie's lives (TIME, June 5). This week, beating out the injunction by a nose, the studio attorneys got together with Nicky, settled his claim...