Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those representatives of the tax-paying public who wanted to air their views before the Ways & Means Committee. Growled Republican Committeeman Allen Treadway of Massachusetts: "Any attempt to prevent the general public being heard to the fullest extent is certain to meet with severe condemnation." But the hearings went ahead with one main objective: to report a tax bill to the House by April...
...Hours ahead of time the river bank was black with people for miles on either shore. The two most powerful tugs in Glasgow puffed importantly about the stern. Six lesser tugs stood by. At 9:30 a. m. the bridge gave the first order: "Let go!" Then down to the engine room went the signal DEAD SLOW ASTERN. All up & down the river whistles were tooting, crowds cheering. But there was hardly a sound from the shipyard workmen. As the steel cables snaked ashore they saw their 7,000 jobs go out with the ship.* The problem...
...minutes that her engines raced full speed astern they had felt none of the vibration that has been the curse of the French Line's Normandie. Chief Engineer Llewellyn Roberts was too tactful to point out that full speed astern is considerably slower than full speed ahead...
...hook Alvan Simonds publishes his own business forecast, Looking Ahead, has looked ahead to predict the Depression, the crash of Florida real estate, the U. S. abandonment of the gold standard. He personally considers his fellow-capitalists "a very stupid lot." When the U. S. entered the War, he was 40. He offered himself to the Government as purchasing agent for steel helmets and body armor, became a Captain of the Army's Ordnance Department...
Last week U. S. Citizen Simonds radioed ahead to Manila for an armed guard to meet him and his wife at the pier. When the Reliance docked, he went ashore behind four policemen to protest to U. S. High Commissioner Frank Murphy, took rooms at a Manila hotel. To newshawks he said: "One of my German friends who openly sympathized with me was attacked and beaten. I feared they would attack us. ... The officers and members of the ship's crew, however, treated us fine...