Word: yet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saratoga, Hialeah, Washington Park and Arlington Park. Whether the proposed track will be ready for the 1940 spring meeting is problematical. The fate of the Widener Chute, also unpopular with railbirds because the horses start almost a mile from the stands and finish at an angle, is as yet unknown...
...yet in World War II has appeared a prototype of the most picturesque character in Preachers Present Arms: the late Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, Brooklyn, N. Y. Congregationalist, father of Marjorie (Live Alone and Like It) Hillis. Because of U. S. "dillydallying" over entering World War I, Dr. Hillis proposed that the tortoise be substituted for the eagle as national symbol. A great Liberty Loan speaker, Dr. Hillis peddled lurid atrocity stories, some of which the Christian Century printed. One of the Doctor's favorites: "When the syphilitic German has used a French or Belgian girl, he cuts...
...yet seeing any war business ahead, looking back on a very sour year, slipped towards another inventory crisis. (Last one: August-September 1939.) In spite of Texas' restricting crude production to only four days a week, gasoline inventories rose another 425,000 barrels to 73,696,000-approximately 4,000,000 barrels above the same week...
...yet have France and Britain begun buying bedroom suites for the Maginot Line. The something which has happened to the furniture industry is not war. The something is that 1939 began with subnormal inventories and an incipient home building boom. Last spring, with builders turning out nearly twice as many new homes as in 1938, furniture makers prepared for a rise. This fall, in spite of World War II, it blew...
...over August were September orders. Better yet, for the first time in ten years October bookings equaled September's, topped 1938 by 25%, put the ten-month average 21% over last year. By month's end unfilled orders were 51% above...