Word: shortest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shortest-handed profession is research: it has 50,000 workers, needs many thousands more...
...York Railroad Club sat down to their 67th annual dinner in Manhattan's Hotel Commodore. For topflight railroad executives it was a relatively cheery meal. They were still chortling because freight carloadings rose 30% between Sept. 9 and Oct. 21 -the largest increase over the shortest period in U. S. history. Phrases like "this augurs well" cropped up in more than one of the evening's speeches. But to thoughtful men among them, the carloading boom was an ugly fact to face. For it demonstrated that their huge industry cannot make a respectable profit even when business...
Germany's armies from East Prussia, with the shortest distance to go, were the slowest to blast their way to Warsaw's outer defenses. Impeded at the Narew River after taking Plonsk and Pultusk, they were halted last week at the Bug. At the junction of the Narew and the Vistula, the fort city of Modlin had yet to fall at week's end. But artillery diverted for this defense weakened the Poles on the southwest. Smashing into Cracow, Germany's armies of the south swept on into the Industrial Triangle to take Sandomierz, Poland...
Latest to learn this lesson of modern geography is exiled King Zog, whose kingdom of Albania was seized by the Italians last April. Having spent most of the time since his flight from Albania at Istanbul, Turkey, Zog recently decided to transfer his home to France. Shortest and quickest route from Istanbul to Paris would have been by rail on either the Orient Express or the Simplon Orient. The Orient goes through Germany and the Simplon through Italy. Zog first arranged to travel by Soviet steamer from Istanbul direct to Marseille, stopping only at Peiraeus, Greece, and Alexandria, Egypt. Normal...
...principle of geodesy, i.e., mathematics of the earth's surface, is that on a curved surface the shortest distance between two points is a curve...