Word: western
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week U. S. District Attorney William J. Campbell in Chicago "respectfully requested" Western Union, A. T. & T. and the telephone company's Illinois subsidiary to disconnect Nationwide's number. Unless they obeyed, they might be indicted as accessories in an illegal enterprise. Although Mr. Campbell has yet to convict indicted Publisher Annenberg of evading income taxes, illegal trafficking with gamblers, etc., the wire companies agreed to hang up on Annenberg services throughout the U. S. At that point a Federal judge persuaded Attorney Campbell to let the network stay in operation three more days while he heard...
...well as the practical advantage of getting Saarbrücken's coal mines and steel mills back into commission. With 150 German shells coming over daily to establish critical ranges, with German planes reconnoitering busily to discover France's intentions, Forbach promised this week to furnish the Western Front's first clear-cut action, Generalissimo Gamelin with his first strong stand or first strategic surrender...
Training airdromes will be built at 100 sites, mostly in wide-open western Canada. Trainers will be shipped to Canada from the other three countries, and in addition to pilots, some 100,000 mechanics, riggers, engine fitters, etc., etc., will be taught in expanded schools of Canada's youth training organization. Enlistments for all these services were reported last week to be far in excess of requirements, many more than can be handled...
...Central Railroad of New Jersey; New York Central; New Jersey & New York; Delaware, Lackawanna & Western; Lehigh Valley; Pennsylvania; Reading; Erie; New York, Susquehanna & Western...
...grade ore from the mountain States-such deposits do exist not too far by rail from Portland. In fact, there are not only western deposits of iron ore but manganese, chromite, tungsten, and lesser metals. Trouble is that most of them are low-grade ores, which means that they are costly to develop...