Word: frontierisms
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...shipped from Berlin to Paris. Thereupon the German Government pays Schmitz A. G. $100.000: and Pierre et Cie pay the French Government $100,000. Obviously the eject of this procedure is that the German Government has paid $100,000 to the French Government, although no money whatever crossed the frontier...
Eight Course Negotiations, As a matter of routine the French Chamber voted earlier last week to spend an additional $96,000,000 on frontier fortifications. But to relinquish $97,000,000 as President Hoover asked, to make this sacrifice for the benefit of Germany which has twice invaded and ravaged French territory and will perhaps do so again?that was asking of the French Chamber too much...
...late afternoon when Pilot Hoiriis, barely able to hold the controls after 32 hours in the air, sighted an airport and landed-Krefeld, in Germany near the Holland frontier. He tumbled out of the plane and dozed where he lay while Hillig bustled to a telephone, called Copenhagen and learned of the great crowds that waited to lionize them at the airport. They must fly on! Valiantly Hoiriis pulled himself together and they did fly, but only as far as Bremen. Half-conscious Hoiriis put the plane down, fell asleep without a word and was carried to a hangar...
...made general agent for Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City Ry. Ten years later he started his utility career by building the Fort Worth-Dallas interurban line, first in Texas. He has an interest in many utility companies now and one of his most important positions is the presidency of Frontier Corp., the dupont-Aluminum Co. power project in the St. Lawrence...
...good fun in a comedy which is partly a satire on westerns, partly a melodrama in its own right. The idea is one of those really comic inspirations whose single disadvantage is that they can never be made quite as funny as their intention. Bored guests, feeling that frontier atmosphere has become effete, are about to leave the dude ranch when the proprietor hires a troupe of vagrant actors to provide glimpses of primitive life. They stage a melodrama in the lobby in which the business of "unhand that woman" and "the viper beats my mother" is used with proper...