Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correspondents excitedly suggested that the Roosevelt "good neighbor" policy may have convinced Mexican workers that they can take U.S.property with President Roosevelt's tacit approval, replied: "Neither President Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull nor I knew about the expropriation in advance. . . . It came like a bolt from the blue! . . . I have informed the State Department that all Mexicans are solidly behind President Cardenas...
Occupants of Manhattan's Empire State Building, world's tallest structure, have quailed many times at a brilliant bolt of lightning accompanied by an immediate clap of thunder. Many of them have not realized that the building itself is often struck, that since the steel frame of a big building acts as a lightning rod, carrying off the charge, its occupants are well protected...
...brief, Sanforizing consists of heating and running a bolt of cloth over an elastic blanket, which contracts and pulls the moistened cloth back to proper length, and makes it stay that way. Cluett, Peabody has an exclusive patent on the process, not only uses it itself but collects royalties ranging from ¼ ?to 1? a yard from 63 U. S. cotton mills producing 60% of U. S. cotton goods. Last week Cluett, Peabody announced that cotton goods Sanforized in 1937 totaled 425,000,000 yds., against 352,000,000 in 1936, 238,000,000 in 1937. Royalties amounted...
...Palace in Tokyo, in a hall adorned with priceless golden screens and Japan's famed wall painting The Thousand Sparrows, the Imperial Council met. His Majesty bolt upright, his generals and admirals in full regalia, his civilian Cabinet in frock coats "Bismarck style," all sat before tables draped with costly old brocade. So much and no more was the authentic news of that fateful meeting that any foreign correspondent in Tokyo was able to obtain. The proceedings were veiled in almost religious secrecy. The event which immediately followed it could not however be concealed...
...rainy night last month William Zielsdorf, a serious little German who keeps a nursery in McLough, Kans. settled down to listen to the radio. Soothed by the music and the rich, fruity tones of announcers, William Zielsdorf dozed. Suddenly he sat bolt upright. An exciting voice had just said...