Word: atop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Armistice Day by hoisting a red flag atop his factory. Later, in the huge Government motor transport depot at Slough known as The White Elephant, he headed the workers' ironbound union. The Government dared not fire him for fear of arousing his followers. Solution: they sacked the whole kit & boodle-7,800 workingmen-just to get rid of Wal. Whereupon Wal dressed them all up as clergymen in surplices and paraded them through the grounds before a huge white cloth elephant, which they pompously mourned as dead...
What the Graphic and what leading citizens did not foresee in 1884 was the automobile. Before the motorcar, nine interurban railroad lines fed into the city. Today there is only one. The broad Central Parkway was built atop the subway (at a cost of $3,330,990), and Cincinnatians in cars and busses now zip into the Basin in the morning, zip out at night about as fast as any other form of transport could carry them...
...newsmen in PWA-Interior like a well-organized city staff, spurs them to dig up the kind of feature stories that newspapers are glad to get. Last week Mike Straus was pleased as punch over his latest job of pressagentry. From the slick, birch-lined radio studio atop the new Interior Building-only studio owned by any Government department-Mr. Ickes and assorted "Voices," hoofbeats, Indian drums, and aides broadcast a dramatization of Interior's 1938 report. Title of script was "My Dear Mr. President." Excerpt...
...Atop the frowning, canyon-like sides of the upper reaches of China's mighty Yangtze River a strange procession last week inched its way westward. Strung out for miles along the cliffs, with the river swirling over the rapids hundreds of feet below, 7,000 coolies pulled 7,000 jinrikishas, part of a stream of thousands of refugees who had chosen to flee Hankow rather than live under Japanese rule. Piled inside the tottering rikishas were all the manhole covers, sewer gratings and radiators the Chinese could gather before the Japanese captured the city on October 26. The destination...
Masterpiece of the $642,000,000 expansion and modernization program initiated by former Chairman Myron Taylor in 1928, the Irvin Works cost around $45,000,000, were built in 19 months, have 51 acres under roof. Located atop a hill to avoid floods, the plant will employ 3,750 men at capacity, whisk steel from slab to sheet at a speed of 20 m.p.h. Last week's celebration dealt largely with these marvels, barely touched upon the wider significance of the Irvin Works to the Steel Industry...