Word: craning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in the port of Algiers 3,000 Arabs backed up Resident General Peyrouton by attacking the tanker Bacchus, breaking her portholes, throwing 60 barrels of wine and a loading crane into the harbor. Day before 200 miles to the west at Mostaganem, Algeria, 300 stoned the City Hall. From Paris last week Minister of the Interior Marcel Régnier, glad for a holiday junket away from France's internal problems, set out for Algeria "to investigate the situation...
...average last July to 119% by the year end. Second-hand machinery, always a curse on the industry during depressions, has been disappearing. In January there was a notable pickup in the demand for used steam shovels. A bright spot in new machinery is the traveling crane trade. Higher labor costs have sent businessmen into the machine market but the rise has largely been the result of better business sentiment, heartening industrialists to the point where they will step out and buy modern equipment...
...yard free style swim--Won by James (A); second, Greone (B); third, Crane (A). Time...
James B. Munn, professor of English, will be chairman of the committee and will be assisted by Dean Hanford, Dean Leighton, Leigh Hoadley, professor of Zoology, Alfred M. Tozzer '00, professor of Anthropology, and C. Crane Brinton '19, assistant professor of History...
Declared Judge Frederick Crane, handing down his opinion on the day before he became Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals last week: "By the undisputed terms of the insurance policy these obligations, or any disputes about them, are to be determined by Russian law. ... To them [the Russian policy holders] the Soviet Republic was no body of bandits, confiscating property, but an existing government, carrying out new theories of insurance. If the Russian people, under their Soviet form of government, determined to abolish all private insurance for their citizens and establish a system of social protection by the state...