Word: defunct
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Black Dragon organization flourishes. It is not defunct. It is no myth. The 87-year-old founder, Mitsuru Toyama, is not doddering...
...when the afternoon Portland Journal was only four months old but already dying of stiff competition (from the morning Oregonian and the now defunct Portland Telegram), Sam Jackson moved to Portland, bought it, with it proceeded to acquire profits and prestige...
...preparing to assure Alaskan supplies by constructing a 1,440-mile railroad from mid-British Columbia to Fairbanks, perhaps to Nome. Since last spring the route has been quietly surveyed under U.S. Engineer Colonel Peter Goerz. A Seattle steel company has bought up the rails from a half-dozen defunct railroads. Washington has discussed the route with Ottawa, and has considered buying a decrepit, 350-mile Canadian railway (between Vancouver and Prince George-although it does not quite reach either) which would fit into the new route...
Hero of the film will be Reverend Gilbert V. Hartke of Catholic University who heads the drama department there. No stranger to the silver screen. Reverend Hartke made his dobut playing juvenile roles for the now defunct Essanay Film Company...
From now on, all specialists, including those previously appointed to the defunct Corps, must qualify for the Army by examination...