Word: clung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Come Across (by Guy Beauchamp & Michael Pertwee; produced by George Buchar and John Tuerk with William A. Brady). Opening its eyes later than any theatrical season in a generation, 1938-39 otherwise clung to tradition, woke up with a bad taste in its mouth. Come Across is a tissue-paper "comedy-drama" offering English ideas of U. S. gangsters in an English version of U. S. slang. The scene is a London hospital where a mobster comes with a bullet in his chest and compels an unwilling surgeon to take it out by first kidnapping the surgeon's little...
...straw that businessmen have clung to during Depression II has been the steadiness of building as compared with virtually every other major U. S. industry. Although new construction was at such low ebb it could not drop much, there were other considerations: 1) rents in 1937 rose out of proportion to living costs, 2) building costs simultaneously fell, 3) the New Deal still further liberalized its construction lending policy...
...week. The ICC's truck division had specified a maximum 60-hr. week with 15 hr. of duty and twelve of work in any 24. Last week, pointing out that the Motor Carriers Act was designed for safety reasons, not for "economic or social ends," the ICC. clung to the 60-hr. week but specified that there be at least eight hours off duty in every 24 and immediate relief from duty after every ten hours. Effective date: October 1. ¶ Bought some $8,000,000 worth of men's and boys' clothing, first batch under...
...Ford went into reverse; the Ford went forward, but the two cars still clung together lovingly. The undergraduate, in desperation, looked around for help. At that moment up stepped no less a personage than William Yandell Elliot, professor of Government, and adviser to President Roosevelt. Scanning the situation with a keen, academic perspicacity, Professor Elliot concluded that only one measure would do the trick--manual labor...
...soft pencil, directed last week the Rightist recapture of Teruel, bloody "Spanish Verdun." Inside this little city, Valentin Gonsalez, a picturesque Leftist Army leader known as El Campesino ("The Peasant"), was busy dynamiting such civic buildings as were not already in ruins, while the 20,000 Leftists holding Teruel clung grimly to their posts...