Word: move
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army and Big Business have tried to get the Führer to move Christmas this year to Sunday, Dec. 24, so that munitions production would hum as usual on Monday, the 25th. Adolf Hitler is an extremely backslidden Roman Catholic, but no fool. He declined to take this advice. Aides said he might celebrate Christmas on the 25th at the Westwall with the troops. Last week rustic Nazi pagan neighbors of the Fuhrer at Berchtesgaden announced that on Christmas Eve they will gather on the mountain crags above his snuggery "to shoot guns and pistols to frighten away...
...here and live in a nice house with a common room and a pleasant garden to walk in. ... One cannot let a bishop's palace any more than one can let a vicarage; that is one of the penalties we pay for Establishment. ... If I were allowed to move into a smaller house I should be better off... despite the fact that I should be giving up ?1,000 a year. ... I fear I have a very long furrow to drive." Well did His Lordship of Ely realize that there was little hope that his wish would be granted...
...Manhattan's sombre old Grand Central Palace, through whose innards move dozens of expositions every year: whirring, clanking, buzzing, gurgling machines, bottles of queer-looking powders, crystals and liquids-the Exposition of Chemical Industries. ... In Manhattan's far-from-sombre Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, under soft lights, on soft rugs, with lyrical commentary, comely models in dazzling clothes: a special show of synthetic fabrics for the Congress of Industry. . . . The scenes were dissimilar but the purposes were the same: to extol the marvels of modern chemistry...
...Rail management, mostly flabby and bureaucratic, generally opposes any move to cut the number of management jobs...
Rates: Governed by no general rules, shrouded in metaphysical complexity are U. S. freight rates. No rhyme or reason explains why iron products move from Chicago to Los Angeles more cheaply than from Denver, which is roughly half the distance. There are countless parallel cases. High rates on less-than-carload freight originally invited the trucks into the business, which they are handling at lower rates than the roads can meet...