Word: upset
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...upset price of some $11,000,000, the Mobile Federal Court ordered the properties of bankrupt Mobile & Ohio (St. Louis to Mobile) sold at foreclosure to G. M. & N., which already had ICC approval to absorb the larger road into a single, 2,007-mile system. First large railroad consolidation since 1934, it puts "Ike" Tigrett at the head of a new railroad named Gulf, Mobile & Ohio, which will start with a $31,870,000 funded debt and annual interest charges of $1,399,920 (about half the two roads' present fixed charges). An additional...
...Sunspots which upset radio and wire service...
...quickly bring to the conflict is a moral and political power. Organizing the democracies in a federal union, with a guarantee that the German people would be admitted to this union when they retired to their frontiers and restored their basic rights as men, would help to upset the German Government from within, and enable the democracies to coordinate their action strongly enough to win against Hitler. Calling...
...phosphorus (1%), the body of a Frenchman is a simple compound of pepper, garlic, pate de foie gras, common bread and good red wine of the land. The French are pungent people. Little things make them gesticulate wildly and pour maledictions like a flood: a bowl of soup upset, a bus missed, a kiss refused. But big things-the Battle of France, so many of the young men spilling that precious red wine into the soil-makes them cold, determined, grim, brave, calm and proud...
...belligerents. His neutrality policy worked so well over the war's first nine months that Prime Minister "Dev" had lately been thinking of holding a general election to cash in on its success. Last month's rape of three little neutrals not so far away upset all that. Appalled Irishmen promptly forgot political enmities energetically cultivated since the civil war. Even William Cosgrave, who rose from saloonkeeper's tyke to President (1922-32), now Opposition Leader of the Dail, rose on his feet last week and plumped for his bitter...