Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brought by Duke Power Co. against Greenwood County, S. C., which obtained a PWA loan and grant for construction of the Buzzard Roost hydro-electric project on the Saluda River. Both companies charged that PWA Administrator Harold L. Ickes was in effect using his program as a "club" to drive down private rates. Denied injunctions, company attorneys brought both cases to the Supreme Court...
...only 75 miles from the Mediterranean, though those 75 miles include territory as difficult as any that a modern army could be asked to cross. Leftist General Rojo's capture of all but a few buildings in the centre of Teruel (TIME, Jan. 3 et ante), and the driving of his lines some six miles beyond the city, meant no more than the nipping of that fingernail. In another sense, it was a major victory of the war, for it took the initiative away from General Franco just as he was about to launch his long-planned drive...
...object of the drive on Teruel was to pull down the full force of Franco's armies on Leftist heads, it succeeded last week beyond measure. With his toughest general, Miguel (siege of Oviedo) Aranda, and his ablest General, Jose Fidel (capture of Bilbao) Davila, leading the counterattack, El Caudillo himself reportedly took charge of the campaign from field headquarters 75 miles northwest at Calatayud...
...Leftist offensive drove to capture Mansueto Hill, most important height above the city. Upon the tough rock of the city itself, the Leftists converged, one wing sweeping round Villastar and Campillo to half way between Concud and Caudete, another wing reaching Sierra Palomera at the height of its drive, off TIME'S map and 18 miles away...
Full cooperation of present members with the new drive being launched by the Building Service Union to unionize maintenance workers was asked by Robert H. Everitt. He said that concentration had been chiefly on the maids so far and that "dandy cooperation" had been advanced by several members of the Faculty...