Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nonsense in this is that Canada's Federal Cabinet alone could take the drastic measures against C. I. O.-such as total exclusion from Canada - which "Mitch" wants to take and talks as if he had taken. In fact Premier Hepburn is not standing and cannot "stand right on top" of C. I. O. unless ultimately he should become Prime Minister of the whole Dominion. Today an estimated 20,000 Ontario toilers have C. I. O. affiliation and are unmolested-but gusty, voracious "Mitch" knows how to sound as if he had eat them alive...
Acting on his latest hunch, Joseph Stalin was busy last week regearing Russia's whole economic machine with a drastic accent on Youth. Only 28 years old and only a candidate for membership in the Communist Party, a machinist named Yakob Yusim had just been promoted straight from the lathe to be director of the Kaganovich Ball Bearing Plant ("Largest in the World") at Moscow, made boss of 20,000 of his former fellow workers. Straight from the cab of his locomotive an engineer named Peter Krivonos, according to Moscow dispatches last week, was promoted manager of the Slaviansk...
...Tokyo last week, Cabinet Ministers scuttled in & out of Emperor Hirohito's moat-encircled palace. The assent of the Son of Heaven was required to dozens of decisions, most important of all to the drastic decision of the military high command to ship Japan's entire regular army -some 260,000 men-across the sea to China...
With the quashing of the Anarchist riots and the formation of the more efficient Negrin Government at Valencia, a drastic effort was made to get Barcelona to bear its share of the fighting. Up from Valencia to take control of Barcelona's military came greying, hard-bitten General Sebastian Pozas, ordered to instill a little efficiency into the Barcelona Government and to try to get a few Catalan soldiers into the trenches. Last week came startling news: General Pozas had finally taken the field at the head of a new army of 200,000 Catalans, and some...
...chief engineer, drew up an analysis of the company which he put before the directors in June. Gist of it was that with Hupmobile's reputation still high among car-owners* all Hupp needed was working capital and a new car. The company had no funded debt, and drastic write-downs on machinery and equipment made its overheac the lowest in the industry. Brightened by Mr. Bradley's analysis, the directors elected him to succeed President Wallace Zwiener, who died a year ago. The company then dropped a previous proposal to issue some $570,000 worth of stock...