Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Irving Potash, C. I. O. Fur Workers Union man, objected, saying that Russia had merely drawn a line in Poland to protect itself from Germany, the floor exploded with boos and sarcastic cries of "Heil Hitler!" As Potash struggled on, booing broke into thunderous shouts of "Take him away! Down with Hitler...
...founded blazing Chrysler Corp. on the ashes of the dying Maxwell-Chalmers fire, had agreed to buy Dodge. The price suited Walter Chrysler, right down to the ground: $170,000,000 in new Chrysler stock. Without turning over a penny of cash Chrysler Corp. had taken over all the floor space and forge and foundry facilities it needed to drive from No. 5 in the industry to the No. 2 position it holds today. (No. 1, General Motors: No. 3, Ford...
...office sat a set of keen-eyed executives tempered by Chrysler: men like B. E. Hutchinson, Fred M. Zeder, Joe Fields. Their fingers were on the controls of every part of Chrysler Corp.'s complicated mechanism. And in the president's paneled office on the fifth floor of the Highland Park plant sat Kaufman Thuma Keller, the same "K. T." who had made the night foray on the Dodge plant eleven years...
...second floor of the museum there is a landscape by Derain which is highly representative of the dignified coherence and low tonality found in most of his other paintings. Derain is by no means a mere imitator: he is a good painter and his individuality succeeds in making itself felt. But it is interesting to see the imprint of Cczanne's body on the hills and now and then Van Gogh's head peeping out from behind the trees...
After a hard morning in the class-room, the booth-dwellers return to their habitat feeling at case with the familiar wooden support behind them. No true "jellier" ever sits at a table in the middle of the floor, only booths give him that protected feeling...