Word: previously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...previous day a record 4,700 tons was brought...
That had been proved countless times in previous congressional hearings. The Pujo investigation (1913) paved the way for the Federal Reserve Act. The Pecora investigation of Wall Street produced the Securities Exchange Act; the Black investigation of the utility lobby led to the Lobbying...
...thing of value," or have in his possession a sponsor's product; 2) must be listening to or seeing over television the show in question; 3) must answer correctly a question to which either the answer or a clue (including the question itself) has been given on a previous broadcast, or 4) must write a letter or answer the telephone when the contents of the letter or the conversation is to be broadcast...
...boost (about $67.4 million a year), much less than the additional 5.6% the railroads had asked. Nevertheless, the roads were feeling a lot better. Example: in June, the Pennsylvania netted some $8,000,000, almost triple the May profit. It was enough to wipe out four previous months of red ink and put the road in the black for the half year...
Thus Henry Scobie, leading man in The Heart of the Matter, is singled out as by a movie camera's swooping eye from the rest of the world; and readers of Graham Greene's previous novels will not have to read far in this one before they know that they have met Scobie and his world before. For this world, disguised though it is under African heat, is the same cruel, sordid, vulturous hell that Greene has conjured up in most of 14 books, and Hero Scobie is Greene's equally familiar creation-a sinner disguised...