Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less serene disposition than "Willie" Woodin might well have been agitated beyond dissembling by the heat and pressure of that first terrific week at the Treasury. Every bank in the land- 18,000 of them- had been shut tight by Presidential proclamation (TIME, March 13). For practical purposes the U. S. was off the gold standard. The nation's industries were at a standstill. The public pulse was beating a panicky tattoo. The Federal Government was so bowed with accumulated deficits as to threaten national credit. Ahead lay only economic uncertainty. If ever a Secretary of the Treasury started...
...Added to the nightmare were the screams of the injured and dying, the wail of fire-engine sirens. Fires had broken out, fed by sprung gas mains. Luckily most water mains held. But the Huntington Park High School had to be dynamited when fire got beyond control. At Watts, the city hall, school, postoffice and Odd Fellows building lay in desolate heaps. At Artesia another school burned. At San Diego radios went off and the First National Bank's burglar alarm went on. Throughout the area trains had all halted where they were to prevent derailment. In San Pedro...
...most important pieces of sculpture in years, a tie with William Zorach's Spirit of the Dance (banned by Roxy, restored last week to Radio City's Music Hall) as the most interesting statue of the year. Sculptor Fiene admits no hobby beyond his sculpture, but he owns two Siamese cats, makes them earn their daily herring by posing for him and his wife, Painter Rosella Hartman...
...practically at a standstill, and the operators can quite afford to wait a few weeks until the workers are driven back to the shops by sheer want, for orders are not so many or so pressing that they cannot be filled next week as well as today. Nothing beyond pure benevolence or consideration on the part of the employers can bring any alleviation of the workers position, and the operators in the sloe industry are not widely noted for such philanthropy. In short, strikes in this region are hardly more than brave gestures, yet the Massachusetts trouble merely reflects...
...about four years blind flying, now called instrument flying, has been a commonplace of U. S. air transport. Day after day planes ride the waves of radio beacons, staying unerringly on course when the pilot can see nothing beyond the cockpit window. But the radio beacon can guide a plane only to a point above its destination. If the airport is hidden by fog or sleet, the plane may crash. Hence the Government still forbids a passenger plane to fly into an airport where the ceiling is under...