Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broke into a long whistle of surprise when bids of 17½? and 19? per airplane mile were read off for routes on which "General" Farley had specified a maximum of 45?. The companies, it seemed, were ready to cut their throats and bleed to financial death rather than die of slow starvation without any airmail contracts...
...task of making up a program for Congress, a program you will come down and see me. . . ." that would send Congress home by May 15. To do so he had to sort out those measures that should still be passed; those others that could be allowed to die; those that must not be passed. Picked for passage: 1) The tariff bargaining bill, permitting the President to effect reciprocal tariff cuts with other nations; 2) the tax bill, although the President would like the coconut oil tax eliminated; 3) the law to extend the present temporary plan of bank deposit guarantee...
...only to be renewed again. Nash workers, their pay difficulties straightened out, again raised the issue that they could not go back to work until Seaman Body Corp. (manufacturers of Nash bodies) settled with its workers. In the Detroit area, a strike threatened by the Mechanics Educational Society (tool & die makers) was called. More than 3,000 tool & die men walked out of 100 small job shops which would not grant their demands for a 20% wage increase, 7-hr. day, 35-hr. week. Last autumn the tool & die makers crippled the entire automotive industry with their strike...
Fundamentalist missionaries to preach God's own Fundamentals to black, brown and yellow men in far corners of the earth. In Philadelphia last October they set up the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. And for its general secretary and most active worker they chose no grizzled Presbyterian die-hard but a keen, quick-smiling young missionary named Charles J. Woodbridge...
Last week the following were news: The president of the New York Stock Exchange serves for one year, the governors for four. Last week the nominating committee posted its slate for the May elections. Though talk of revolt against the Stock Exchange's die-hard policies had filled Wall Street for months. Richard Whitney was named for his fourth term and seven of the ten retiring directors were renominated. Nomination for president is tantamount to election. Nevertheless, it was clear that what for the Stock Exchange was a major shake-up had occurred. The three governors not renominated were...