Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cost of public works he could get his costs down to $959-but most cities and states are too hard pressed to leap at the chance. The President said nothing, but Washington was certain that the bulk of the $4,000,000,000 was going eventually to drop into the lap of Harry Hopkins. He alone needs little stone or steel, can put a white collar man on the payroll at a cost of 20? (for pencil and paper), a laborer at a cost of $1 (for a rake). For his $4,000,000,000 last week it looked...
...quarter of a century Sir Horace Edmund Avory has been "The Hanging Judge" to terrified British criminals who also called him "Acid Drop." Scrawny-necked, thin-lipped, slit-eyed and fearsome on his high bench in Old Bailey, Sir Horace sent to the gallows a yearly grist of sordid British murderers and that misguided Irish patriot Sir Roger Casement. The Acid Drop also corroded Clarence Hatry, greatest of British swindlers, whose gigantic frauds unsettled confidence in The City and hastened Depression (TIME, Oct. 21, 1929). Last week Super-Swindler Hatry sat in a cell from which he may emerge...
Famed for his "definitions," always good for a titter in Old Bailey, was the late, great Acid Drop. His definition of a lunatic: "A lunatic sometimes thinks he is the Lord Chancellor; sometimes he thinks he is a fried egg and cannot sit down except on a piece of toast...
...Last week, at 6 a. m., after an all-night session with Huey Long, the Senate again amended the resolution, extracting the last drop of milk. In future any voluntary codes may cover hours of work and rates of pay but do not protect coded industries "against existing laws, including the anti-trust laws...
...against the cut-rater's 29?; for National Brand butter 29? against 13?. The rush lofted to a peak the first day, then dwindled rapidly until, within three days, the volume of incoming merchandise amounted to only a handful of items. Reason: cut-raters had been forced to drop "loss leaders" entirely soon after the rush started as a matter of profit protection...