Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...later Queen Mary and the Duke of York went to see the samples. Foraging by himself, the Duke of York discovered a pile of striped pajamas. "Men never buy this sort of thing for themselves," declared H.R.H. "I think bright fashions in men's pajamas were designed to catch the eyes of the wives...
...grave diplomatic conversations in Tokyo and Moscow. Russian property, they became international following the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) when the Japanese demanded and got equal rights with Russians to fish certain waters. After the Russian Revolution, Japanese fishermen stampeded into all the best fishing grounds, exported their crab catch largely to the U. S., their salmon catch to Britain. Not until 1928, when an eight-year Fishing Convention was signed, did the Soviet Government get a firm restraining hand on this fat traffic. This treaty gave the Japanese exclusive rights to certain waters, especially those near the canneries they...
...popular charge that its inventions and labor-saving devices were largely responsible for Depression. Millions of jobless felt that, somehow, they would be at work today if Science had not replaced them with machines. Wiser men discussed the possibility of a research holiday, to give economics a chance to catch up with Science. "Science and engineering will destroy themselves and the civilization of which they are a part unless there is built up a consciousness which is real and definite in meeting social problems." Secretary of Agriculture Wallace had cried at assembled American Association for the Advancement of Science members...
...most interesting change from the usual tales of colonial, hardship in the new world. The various charters and companies which Raleigh, Sandys and others had to wade through before they finally could settle here give the layman a new view of colonial life, one which apparently has failed to catch enough interest in scholars who might have devoted a book...
...where they already had Vienna's famed Burgomaster Karl Seitz and the Austrian Republic's first Chancellor, Dr. Karl Renner. Drumhead courts-martial were set up to try rioters, and kept the newly appointed state executioner, Herr Lang, busy hanging the victims. The first day's catch reached him the third day of the fighting. A young married man, one Karl Munischreiter, had been caught with a rifle a few hours after the state radio announced martial law. A police doctor dressed his wounds, testified he was not likely to die of them. Forty-eight hours after...