Word: yards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting of the British News Proprietors Association was held last week under pressure from the Cabinet and a decision taken that "because of the imminence of the Coronation and the social consequences" of reporting the Simpson divorce it would not even be mentioned in British newspapers. Simultaneously Scotland Yard operatives took the number of the motorcar of an Associated Press photographer who was taking pictures of furniture being moved into Mrs. Simpson's new house and warned him that the political branch of Scotland Yard is "clearing this street." The U. S. photographer refused to be intimidated and made...
...Bucharest, Rumania, onetime Sexton Ion Glicherie was arrested for selling space in Heaven to peasants at 16 lei (16?) per square yard...
...transmission lines, oil companies in surveying pipe-line right-of-way. Connecticut's highway department Fairchild mapped the whole State for some $20,000. The Connecticut survey still provides Fairchild with revenues through sale of enlargements to towns and individuals. For less than $10 a picture nearly a yard square with a ground scale as large as 100 ft. to 1 in. can be obtained of any spot in the State. Connecticut towns use the maps for tax assessing...
...those mass production, pre-fabricated political columns called, "The National Whirl gig." At the time of the Tercentenary, when even the most crabbed of Boston reporters were lulled into amiability by Harvard's antiquity and learning, one columnist gave birth to a unique interpretation of the exercises in the Yard. It appears under the straightforward, no-foolin' title, "Out in the Rain...
...unanimously were for Alf, feeling that he "would end the depression . . . restore wages . . . lower the cost of living." While the Kansan polled almost 98% of the waitresses vote, still many other menu handlers shly admitted a preference for the virile tactics of "Break It Up" Apted, head of the Yard Police...