Word: desk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kill such an excessive number of whales each year that they will end by killing off entirely these great mammals and crippling one of Norway's chief industries. Norwegians feel sure that they know more about whales than any other people. They are left cold by the desk-decisions of British soap magnates such as Unilever Ltd. which own British whale-killing and blubber-boiling "factory ships" on which the crews have always been Norwegians...
...under "Amusement Devices and Games," a policeman's club (Patent No. 2,026,077). Referred to by its inventor as a "Kike Killer," No. 2,026,077 is a short, stream lined hardwood truncheon, with finger grip and leather lanyard. Two "Kike Killers" were handy on the True desk during the interview, the New Masses reported. Mrs. True, the New Masses interviewer was told, carried a less hefty bludgeon called a "Kike Killer, lady's size." Pointing out that "for a first-class massacre more than a truncheon is needed," the New Masses went on to report that...
...transport license, first ever granted to a U. S. woman. In 1929-30-31 she walked off with the chief feminine prizes at the National Air Races. Finally, in 1932, after a half-million miles in the air, two serious crackups, she quit active flying, took a desk job with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in Washington...
...wearing red shorts, tennis shoes, an Indian war bonnet, a Kansas sunflower, with red paint daubed on his face and bare chest, a long white sack under his arm. Whooping, "Feathers instead of bullets," the visitor dumped 40 pounds of white feathers over Secretary Woodring's desk, scampered out before the Cabinet officer's return. Caught two hours later, still seminude, featherbrained Frank ("Woody") Hockaday, 50, onetime Kansas business man who now considers himself an apostle of peace, was lodged in the Gallinger Municipal Hospital psychopathic ward, where attendants remarked he would remain "for quite some time...
Last week after a ten-day vacation on a ranch near Las Vegas, N. Mex., with his wife and one of his four daughters, Merchant Clayton returned to his desk in Houston to be on hand, like the world's lesser cotton men, for the Government's estimate. Lamar Fleming Jr., his young partner, who is rated the firm's No. 2 man, saw the figures soon after he debarked from the Enropa in Manhattan. Presumably the partners of Anderson, Clayton & Co. were pleased because a big crop means more cotton to handle. In the seven seasons...