Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world's flyers who did enterprising work last year, the International Aeronautic Federation, meeting at Copenhagen last week, chose Bert Hinkler as having accomplished 1928's greatest aeronautical achievement. He flew alone from England to Australia in 15 days, 12 hrs. (TIME, March 5, 1928). His reward: a gold medal like the ones the Federation has awarded in prior years to Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Commander Francesco de Pinedo, Sir Alan J. Cobham...
...during his first term (January-November 1924) the votes necessary for him to obtain a majority over the Conservatives on important party legislation lay in the control of that most professional political practitioner, bob-haired David Lloyd George. As before, Liberal Lloyd George could combine with whatever side he chose until it suited him to oppose the government on a confidence vote. Then another general election would be required...
...Tiomne was Ivan Skripnik, onetime policeman. Igor Serednitzky, a slow-witted peasant, was his chief disciple. So black did life seem to "Johnists" Skripnik and Serednitzky and their followers last week that it wa's decided to send a messenger to heaven. Looking about him, Ivan Skripnik chose young Gregory Romashevsky to act as this messenger. Romashevsky blanched but accepted, prepared to die. He lay down on the table in the mean wooden house that serves the Johnists for a church. By his head was laid an old butcher knife, carefully sharpened...
...Farbenindustrie, Germany's famed Dye Trust. Furthermore, I. G. F.'s President, Carl Bosch, co-developer of the Haber-Bosch nitrogen fixation process, became Chairman of the Ford German company. Thus not the German people but the German Dye Trust became Ford associates. Thus Mr. Ford chose to make a financial instead of a popular alliance...
...Schulte Retail Stores Corp., announced that he was going to do some price cutting that was price cutting. His boast was premature. For, of course, A. & P. and Liggetts sell so many products other than cigarets and cigars that they could afford to give away cigarets, if they chose...