Word: western
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trench "war of position" fof an open "war of maneuver," because the campaign to take the Dardanelles got under way too slowly. Britain's Sir Douglas Haig threw away a chance for a decisive breakthrough when he allowed the new invention of the tank to appear on the western front prematurely, without adequate support, in numbers far too small to be effective. If Brilliant Mind Winston Churchill and Brilliant Mind Lloyd George, whose ideas were squelched by the military men, had had full scope in 1914-18, the War might have taken a different course. And if Germany...
...wooing back vanishing trade, while he keeps his employes on the job, his goods in circulation, his ledgers in the black. To the first school the Eastern railroads of the U. S. (except for Daniel Willard's Baltimore & Ohio) have largely adhered through Depression I and II. Meanwhile, Western and Southern roads, which chopped deep into their passenger fares, reaped a reward in increased passenger revenues, less idleness for rolling stock and men. Last week, the Eastern roads finally enrolled in the low-price school...
This was a lesson in economics. Last week the Eastern roads tacitly admitted that they had learned something from it. Mr. Williamson's committee plumped for lower rates and bigger volume-with a hedge. The Western roads which have profited by low fares have comparatively long passenger hauls. (Average passenger ride on Union Pacific: 560.89 miles. Average on New York Central: 57.85 miles.) So the Eastern roads plan to scale their fares down to encourage longer rides...
Died. Murdo Mackenzie, 89, Scottish-born president of the American National Livestock Association; in Denver. Old-time Western rancher, Mackenzie became king of U. S. cattlemen, operated 1,000,000 acres in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado, once scolded President Theodore Roosevelt: "You said you'd give me 20 minutes and you've done all the talking. Now you'll keep your word and listen to me." Cattleman Mackenzie never carried a gun. Said he: "I'm too big to do any gunfighting. Nobody could possibly miss me." His biggest triumph: the 1906 Hepburn Act, which...
Unmarried (Paramount) will be a titillating title on U. S. cinemarquees, though the picture fails to sparkle on the screen. A new once-over of an old Paramount property about a nightclubstress, a prizefighter and a waif, it features slumbery-eyed Helen Twelvetrees and Western Star Buck Jones without his horse, Silver. Buck without Silver is all ham and no eggs...