Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each went to the "plungers," or the plumbers of the maintenance department. In the League the carpenters are known as the "wood-rollers," the electricians as the "live-wires," the grasscutters as the "grasshoppers," the painters as the "artists," and the bosses, who always end up at the bottom, as the "highrollers." And as for the yardcops, it was said, "they aren't even ambitions enough to come out for the sport." The competition in the league starts Labor Day and ends on Patriets...
...Aeronautics, commanded the Hampton Roads Naval Air Station, the aircraft carrier Lexington. His appointment was doubly important to Naval aviation in view of the President's determination to dispense with the services of an Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. But flying Captain Kingachieved fame on the bottom of the sea. When the S-51 went down in 132ft. of water off Block Island in 1925 most Navy men thought it was there to stay. There were no precedents, no equipment for raising a 1,000-ton submarine from deep water in the open sea. Nonetheless a salvaging...
Last week the Governor of New York squiggled "Herbert H. Lehman'' at the bottom of a bill taxing retailers within his State 1% on all sales. Effective May 1, the tax will apply to everything people buy except food, motor fuels, public utility services. Strictly a child of Depression, it will be operative 14 months, put $30,000,000 new revenue in the depleted State Treasury. Since the economic crisis, four other states have adopted retail sales taxes. Depression children also, they appear to be thriving...
Effective April 1, Illinois passed a 3? tax on all retail goods sold except gasoline and farm products sold directly to the consumer. If you buy $1 worth of food in an Illinois restaurant; a little item at the bottom of your check requires another 3?. Proceeds go to dependent unemployment relief...
...that doubtful borderland bounded on the bottom by such boyish ballyhoo as Richard Halliburton's and on the top by such popular-science as William Beebe's, the best-selling books of Traveler "Willie" Seabrook stand well above the middle. Better writer than Halliburton, more of a rolling adventurer than Beebe, Seabrook has popularized a new formula for travel books. His readers can now expect of him not only a racily written report of outlandish foreign parts but a frank confession that he has gone as native as he cared to. In Jungle Ways (TIME, April...