Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thrifty Germans weighed miles against marks, slow and cheap local trains against the several grades of German expresses, each with its slightly extra fare. Result reported last week: passenger train revenue did not bounce with the higher fares but slumped 16,000,000 marks...
With a nice flair for the appropriate statistic, the German Railway Company cheerfully went on to reveal last week that even if the public had fooled them it had still bought one billion tickets during the year. "Seventeen printing shops print most of the tickets," continued the chatty announcement, "but we have installed 1,650 ticket-printing apparatuses in our most important ticket offices which can be instantly adjusted to print any ticket required, together with any price...
...Frenchman took a big black paint brush last week and did his best to write in the bright lexicon of the Hoover-MacDonald Five-Power Naval Conference the four-letter English word "Fail...
Therefore the note which France sent in duplicate to all the naval parley Powers last week was handed out in an official English translation to U. S. correspondents at Paris, was handed out to Washington newsmen next day by the French embassy, but was not delivered to the State Department until four days afterwards...
Since President Herbert Hoover has caused to be publicly made known that he is vexed when people write to him and give the letter to the press before he replies (TIME, Aug. 26), it almost seemed last week that L'Americain had deliberately set out to double-vex the President. His action was applauded by the French Chamber of Deputies. Soon afterward the Chamber appropriated $50,000,000 to build seven submarines, six destroyers, one battle cruiser, four auxiliary ships and to buy a goodly supply of torpedoes and shells...