Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later in Washington President Roosevelt inducted NRA into its second phase. For its first 15 months of life NRA's executive structure had been monolithic, with Hugh Samuel Johnson as the bottom, top and sides. The structure of NRA's administration was now changed to a pyramid. Broad base was a seven-man board which would carry on the routine duties of code administration. No sooner had these seven members been appointed than statisticians found that four were lawyers, five were in Who's Who, three were economists, two had Phi Beta Kappa keys...
...scissors hold on George. Referee Donnell tried to step between the wrestlers to save them from going through the ropes. Browning wrapped his arms around Donnell's neck and the next instant wrestlers and referee plunked down on the cement floor. Donnell landed at the bottom. Spectators untangled them, found Donnell unconscious with concussion of the brain. He was taken to the Haymarket Relief Station. Wrestlers Browning and George returned to the ring where a substitute referee awarded the three-man fall to George. Amid more grunting and gripping Browning, who had hurt his hip, was quickly thrown through...
...only two small boxes containing peas were lost and none of the other food was injured in the least Washburn said that the force of the box as it hit the snow, instead of burying it many feet, merely caused it to throw up a wide crater in the bottom of which could be found the box, sunk less than six inches...
Tobacco ranks sixth in the value of U. S. field crops, fifth in U. S. exports and most of it goes up in smoke. Usually the crop is worth $250,000,000 but last year, with prices not far from rock bottom, it brought only $180,000,000. Processed into cigarets, cigars, snuff and quids, it is worth $1,000,000,000 annually, and its taxes provide the U. S. Government with its largest single item of miscellaneous revenue ($400,000,000 per year). The marketing of tobacco products is a triumph of modern salesmanship but the marketing...
...glass sphere with tubular extensions on opposite sides, the Ignitron is an ordinary mercury vapor lamp except that the electrodes are the pool of mercury in the bottom of the sphere and a graphite pole above it. When struck by the bullet, the copper wire closes a switch which passes electric current to the mercury. A spark then leaps between pool and pole. The flash lasts...