Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When President Roosevelt selected not only a woman but one without any labor affiliations for the bottom place in his Cabinet, the A. F. of L. squawked a loud protest. Declared Mr. Green: "The Secretary of Labor should be representative of labor, one who understands labor, labor's problems, labor's psychology, collective bargaining, industrial relations. . . . Labor can never become reconciled to the selection made...
...down a 100,000-ton liner such as does not now exist. Through its gate, liners will float into a huge masonry bed. A sliding caisson will drop behind them. Four 54-in. centrifugal pumps will take out water until the ship sits on the concrete bottom, propped upright so that its hull may be scraped.* Flanking the dry dock are a mile and a half of new quays. Nearby a monument marks the spot whence the Mayflower...
...Tethys Deep" was bridged by Central America was indicated by Yale's Dr. Hellmut de Terra. With the cooling and shrinking of earth's underlying shell of magmatic (semifluid) rock, the northern and southern land masses drew toward each other. Pinched between them, the bottom of the "Tethys Deep" wrinkled, bulged upward, finally, as the pressure increased, emerged from the water to form a bridge...
...such altitude but the flood of 1929 boosted it to a lesser peak, a Mount Sinai of nearly $55,000,000. The far side of that mountain fell away, steeply, right down to the Red Sea. In two years Steel got to sea level, in three years to the bottom of the sea- $16,000,000 deep by the first quarter...
...work still stands as an unchallenged monument to War Photographer Matthew Brady and his aides who also recorded the four-year struggle on some 7,000 wet plates that had to be developed five minutes after exposure. World War cameramen with their improved equipment remain nameless heroes. From the bottom of their portfolios were lifted such blood-curdling pictures as went into The Honor of It published last year by Brewer, Warren & Putnam as a frankly pacifist tract (TIME, March 21, 1932). Though The First World War contains half a dozen prints used in The Horror of It its totality...