Word: behind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lately transferred to sea duty, he left behind at Lakehurst, N. J. Naval Air Station 17 lighter-than-air officers who putter about the sky in seven small blimps and one metalclad ship. Still inflated but confined to its mast or hangar at Lakehurst is the aging Los Angeles, available for ground training but banned from the air by the skeptical Navy high command. (The Army has given up even observation balloons, turned to autogyros...
...Last week, however, A. F. of L.'s William Green printed in his American Federationist an offer to resume negotiations with C. I. O. where they were dropped last December. To canny labor observers this was a small sign that Administration matchmaking is having effect behind the scenes...
...Shansi Province last week, almost 300 miles north of Hankow, Communist guerrillas, fighting far behind Japanese front lines, continued to slash communication lines, ambush food and reinforcement convoys. From Hankow Japanese forces fanned out in a wide circle 200 miles in circumference, feeling for stray Chinese bands...
...amendment to the State Constitution lowering the real-estate tax ceiling to ten mills. Since then the National Association of Manufacturers and other industrial interests have defeated attempts to get other revenues through higher income taxes. Meanwhile the State school aid fund has fallen $17,000,000 behind, left localities in the lurch. Only solution is special local tax levies by cities. One after another, all large Ohio cities except Dayton voted such levies, in some cases, notably in Cincinnati and Springfield, after schools closed...
...President Columnist Evie gushed the other day: "He was so charming that I forgot to be frightened. ... It was quite the most impressive experience I've had, and had it not been for that great personality, I would have been scared to death! He sat up behind his big desk and put every person instantly at ease. He answered questions good-naturedly and quickly-I wonder if there's a question in the world that would make him 'hem and haw.' . . He had on a dark blue suit with a very faint stripe, a white shirt...