Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...future. French unemployment figures have for the first time in history passed the four hundred thousand mark. It is common knowledge that Mussolini is wrestling manfully, though none too successfully, with internal difficulties, of which rising unemployment is but one instance, and that the lira rests on none too firm a foundation. Germany's condition would cause less stoical a man than Hitler to weep. Her trade balance would be justly complimented by being called unfavorable, and her political stability is almost wholly dependent on the extent to which Germans are willing to tighten their belts without resort to revolt...
...should be amended so as not to force a closed shop on any industry; price fixing should be limited to the prevention of "price demoralization''; no industry not in interstate commerce should be codified: the Government should not require compliance certificates or discriminate against any firm until it is judicially adjudged a code violator...
...when the trial started. In the court room, Judge Coleman heard the mob shouting outside, tried to calm spectators with the assurance that it was just some sort of Christmas parade. No parade, the mobsters charged the court house twice. The no guardsmen returned tear gas for rocks, held firm. The third time the mob charged, militia officers, determined to hold the court house, ordered: "Fire!" A countryman named Pat Lawes spun around like a top, fell eight feet from the court house porch to a concrete walk below, dying. A house painter named Edwards dropped with a bullet through...
...88th birthday last week Ambrose Swasey appropriately received a planet for a present. A great benefactor of U. S. engineering (he has given $750,000 to the Engineering Foundation), white-bearded, bright-eyed Engineer Swasey has been manufacturing topnotch astronomical equipment since 1880. His firm, Warner & Swasey Co. of Cleveland, made the 36-inch Lick Telescope, the Naval Observatory's 26-incher, Canada's Dominion Astronomical Observatory's 72-incher, Argentine National Observatory's 60-incher, the mounting and housing for the 80-incher which will be the world's second largest when...
...staff of artists and engineers were busy on a pin game checker board in red, gold and black with bulbous gold clouds from which issue silver thunderbolts. Before it is released this week or next the final drawings will be submitted to a commercial artist for advice. The firm's own designers, says Mr. Rabkin, get so wrought up over each new creation that they are totally unable to see the simplest flaws...