Word: alarmable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Spanish Republic divides the transition from tranquility to martial law into three steps. Last December punctilious, white-haired Premier Alejandro Lerroux declared a "state of prevention." Last week he took the second step by declaring a "state of alarm." Still ahead was a "state of martial...
...Eighty thousand building workers threw down their tools because a handful of contractors was holding out against a 44-hour week. Over a thousand men walked out of a tobacco factory because one "Conservative" porter had been hired. Last week Premier Lerroux pieced together a third Cabinet and tried "alarm." To prevent it from alarming too much, the Minister of the Interior explained that the new7 state was "not because of any dangerous conditions, but because of the possibilities that attempts may be made against the public order"-i. e., strikes. Grimly he added, "The Government's authority...
...long, hard fight loomed, and possibly an unsuccessful one if tariff-protected business took alarm. Since 1930 the President has had authority to raise or lower tariffs 50% on recommendation of the Tariff Commission after hearings to determine that such changes would "equalize manufacturing costs" at home and abroad. Under this authority a few tariffs have been raised, almost none lowered. The new bill places the responsibility for changes directly on the President...
...kitchen and poison on the mantelpiece, that they will all be lucky to get out alive. The oldest woman present commits suicide when the radio denounces her as a social parvenu. The banker kills himself by accident while trying to poison the rest of the company. Curiosity and alarm set others to bickering and snarling. They drop off one by one, leaving only the journalist (Donald Cook) and his inamorata (Genevieve Tobin...
...wing attached to the fire station is the new fire alarm headquarters for the city of Cambridge and there the Fire Department jealously guards the delicate signal system. No pains have been spared to make the alarm headquarters foolproof and fire-proof. To safeguard the equipment against fire, each window is equipped with jets for a "water curtain" and also a steel curtain which falls automatically if a fire breaks out nearby. Both of these protections work on the principle of the automatic sprinkler system--that is, the metal with which the ends of the jets are covered melts...