Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emerging one step ahead of Mr. Murray, Harvey Fremming of C. I. O.'s Oil Workers Union stormed sarcastically: "We found out what a labor oligarchy is. They said, 'We can't take you in because you'll break up our little playhouse...
...Matthews (once awarded a cross by Fascist Italy). Moving forward on the last day with a supporting column he reported that a sudden change in the weather had almost entirely melted the blinding snows of the first day of the attack, noted a pair of happy dogs gamboling ahead of the grim advancing line of skirmishers, announced that in this entire advance of 50,000 Leftist troops he saw but one foreign officer, a Bulgarian. Suddenly at mid-afternoon two truckloads of men pulled up by the roadside where Correspondent Matthews was standing...
...writers who have been glad to get on the WPA payroll: Poet Conrad Aiken, for example, who wrote the memorable description of Deerfield, Mass, in the Massachusetts State guide. Idaho director was impassioned, temperamental Novelist Vardis Fisher (In Tragic Life) who rushed out the 431-page Idaho guide ahead of all rivals, promptly started work on a comprehensive Idaho Encyclopedia, scheduled for publication this spring. For Louisiana the director was Novelist Lyle Saxon (Children of Strangers, Fabulous New Orleans), whose guide to New Orleans was complicated by the difficulty of writing about the city's famed red-light district...
...manufacturing division of 24 textile mills. These he consolidated into one closely-co-ordinated unit, reducing the number of products to 18, all sold under the brand name Fieldcrest. Moving the manufacturing division to Manhattan, he marked out a program for it and commanded, in effect, "Now, boys, go ahead and don't ask me for money...
...McKinsey crystal ball had predicted a small cotton crop this year. When it turned out to be immense, the Marshall Field manufacturing division took a whale of a loss on its huge cotton orders. What was worse, Mr. McKinsey, for all his theoretical skill, foresaw no business depression ahead and the manufacturing division kept on turning out goods at top speed all last spring. When excess inventory caught up with the Fieldcrest mills, they were definitely hard hit. The manufacturing division is now contracting like a scared shellfish...