Word: closing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stuck by his principle that the Navy should aim to do its fighting as far as possible from U. S. shores. With their relatively short ranges (600-1,000 miles)," mosquitoes would be useful mainly in and around U. S. bays and harbors. If enemy ships ever got that close to the U. S., said Bill Leahy, the country would do better to call on its God than on a bunch of putt-putts...
...flats deserted by wartime évacués from London, new clubs open almost every night. Sir John keeps an eye on them by means of occasional Scotland Yard "raids." The polite British inspectors merely take down the names of patrons in little notebooks, but do not close the joint. In the House of Commons there is mildly derisive laughter whenever His Majesty's Government is questioned about "blackout morals" and "harpy clubs" by such anxious moralists as Manchester Conservative E. L. Fleming, M. P. "I am worried about wicked women," Mr. Fleming recently observed. "Britain's young...
...grenades from three sides simultaneously. These raids, by seasoned troops, were interpreted by the French as "information please" parties (TIME, Nov. 27), to take the place of air reconnaissance which lately cost the Germans many a plane.* But the French took no chance on letting the scouts hold ground close up to their forward positions, which might prelude a general attack...
...called the Tribune. Founded to help Publisher Thomson fight the Times-Picayune, the Tribune gave New Orleans its fourth daily (third was the Item's afternoon rival, the States) and made it one of the hottest competitive newspaper towns in the country. Within six years the Tribune was close behind the States in circulation, the Item and Tribune together outsold the Times-Picayune...
...Metairie with a photographer went Meigs Frost. They crawled through weeds and bushes on a neighboring lot, snapped pictures of a university truck delivering millwork. The house was for a close friend of Governor Richard Webster Leche. Two days later, after poring over deeds and checking facts, the States broke Reporter Frost's front-page story. Next day the Times-Picayune followed suit. Fortnight later, Governor Leche resigned, and his Lieutenant Governor, Huey's brother Earl Long, took his place...