Word: behind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...note Mr. Andrews is scratching behind his ear. I have worn my finger down to a nub about this goddam Fair ? ? ? wages bill. I want to know ? Does it apply to my business. After reading volumes and listening to hundreds of opinions, I am still definitely confused. I manufacture upholstered chairs. I have ceased shipping interState. I get most of my raw materials from out of State, such as lumber, fabrics, springs, tacks, etc. Does the fact that getting my materials through interState Commerce make me subject to this act even if I don't ship interState...
...TIME, Dec. 12, in your story ["Long Skip"] about United Air Lines' recent accident, you describe the pilot as having "2,000,000 hours of flying behind...
...California as a Denny hobby, the miniature (8 ft. by 12 ft.), gasoline-driven robots need no pilots, can fly at 7,000 to 8,000 feet for 30 minutes. Until the planes are delivered next summer, practicing gunners must continue to get along with colored streamers towed behind full-sized craft...
...drowsy, cupolaed courthouses, behind the flyspecked fronts of general stores, in thousands of voting booths in a belt stretching through 19 States of the South and West and jumping over the Pacific to Hawaii, Election Day dawned last week. The voters were the nation's growers of cotton, rice, and flue-cured tobacco, 2,500,000 strong. They were asked to give a straight Yes or No on the strictest controls possible under the Agricultural Adjustment Act: The imposition of prohibitive taxes on any producer who markets more than a fixed crop quota in 1939. To the question...
...first of the seventh Dudley, behind by two runs, got two men on base with two out. At this point Alexander proceeded to win his own game by knocking in his two teammates with a hit which stuck in the net of the cage...