Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Infantile paralysis last week continued to subside in communities along the northern Atlantic coast, continued to rise slightly elsewhere. No nation-wide epidemic seemed likely...
...ears of the motor industry pricked high this summer when Charles Michael Schwab, master of Bethlehem Steel, returned to his old interest in Stutz Motor Car Co. of America, and when the company returned with a rush to wide public notice by announcing a new model with the famed old Stutz nickname "Bearcat" (TIME. July 27). Last week Stutz President Edgar Staley Gorrell made known what the industry did after pricking its ears. Not one, not two, not three or four but no less than nine separate motor companies had approached Stutz with offers to buy, sell, merge...
...laborers, Churchill still had no permanent residents last week beyond the trappers, the police, the Eskimos and the Hudson's Bay factor. This is by government order. The engineers who built Churchill harbor have made an ambitious town plan for Churchill. There are to be parks and playgrounds, wide streets, residential and business districts. Because of Churchill's subarctic winters most of the inhabitants will live in small apartment houses heated from a central station. Special arrangements for water supply and sewage disposal will have to be made. To prevent famine and plague, the Canadian Government will...
...coupon department of great Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co. is at the east end of the second or main banking floor of the company's 23-story building running between Clark and La Salle Streets in Chicago. The central hall is entered by two wide stairways leading from the street floor, the walls flanked by mammoth columns topped by murals. The coupon department, U-shaped, gives access to the bank's customers on three sides. In the centre of the U is window No. 77, and behind this window customers could be sure to find Walter Wolf, manager...
...Significance- James Joyce, whether or not he intended to be, has been an authors' author. His cultivation of the "stream-of-consciousness" method, use of a wide-angled lens in picturing his landscapes, resulted in writing too hard for the general reader. Other authors have taken from Maestro Joyce a hint here & there, or have aped him slavishly for the precious few. Herr Doblin is the first to copy him on a large scale and for a wide audience. Perhaps only through such filters as Alexander platz will Joyce's strong waters be made potable to the public...