Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delivery and consumption in the U. S., except certain flat-rolled products. This was interpreted as confirming wage rates, for Steel officers have said prices could not be cut without cutting wages. At S. W. O. C. headquarters in Pittsburgh, Statistician Harold Ruttenberg reported that steel jobs had fallen from 602,000 last August to about...
...Commander General Alfredo Kindelan has written an article entitled Clipped Wings. In this, General Kindelan boldly grumbled against his superior Generalissimo Francisco Franco, declared that had the Rightist Air Force only been permitted to apply the Douhet Theory in good measure both Madrid and Barcelona would long since have fallen. Groused General Kindelan: "The Air Force which I have the honor to command has had its wings clipped and its field of action restricted to tactical and strategical objectives, and occasionally factories, power stations. arsenals and lines of communication...
Less than one inch of rain had fallen during the past 100 days, and the drought was said to be costing United Kingdom farmers last week $2,500,000 per day. With the grass shortage forcing British farmers to fling unseasonably large flocks of sheep on the Home market, thus threatening to break the price, Conservative Robert Hugh Turton begged His Majesty's Government to "keep overseas sheep off the market...
...seven showed modernistic tendencies. Compared with programs of ten years ago the past season in Manhattan, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago showed an appreciable decline in the number of modernist composers represented. Since 1935 activities of Manhattan's League of Composers, modernism's principal U. S. stronghold, have fallen off sharply...
...group of thoughtful undergraduates founded an organization to be known as the Harvard Memorial Society to commemorate men of the College who had fallen in the Civil War. Before much time had passed, the meaning of the name changed as the Society transferred its interests to the study and preservation of Harvard history and traditions. Commemorative tablets and plaques were scattered about the College to remind students of the long and significant story which Harvard had behind her. Interest was considerable, and many leaders of undergraduate activities became prominently associated with it. However, the years ushered in the doldrums...