Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their belief that they can turn it to account. As long as NRA exists they sooner or later may win the right to write their own ticket for the complete unionization of industry. If NRA expires that source of hope expires with it. To them NRA may be no forward step but the liquidation of NRA would be a backward step which they could not forgive...
...Pittsburgh one morning went eagle-nosed Major-General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler, to speak at a banquet.* That same day Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante was appearing at a Pittsburgh theatre. Stepping off his train, General Butler thrust his head forward in characteristic pose, stomped down the platform. Loiterers, mistaking him for the well-publicized Durante, began to cheer. That evening nosey Comedian Durante turned up at the banquet where nosey General Butler was speaking. A cameraman snapped them nose to nose...
...side, stuck her nose into the air, started to climb. The lookout atop the great bag telephoned the control car that a rib had snapped in the framework, that No.1 gas cell near the fin had ripped open. Steady as a stone, Commander Wiley ordered gas valved from the forward cells, all water ballast and emergency fuel aft dumped, the engines slowed down, in a vain attempt to level the ship off. The altimeter registered 4,600 ft. before the Macon faltered in its helpless ascent, began to fall tail first. Pike-plain to all aboard was the fact that...
...dozens went forward along the narrow catwalks. As they ran, they wriggled into life jackets...
Nearly one-fifth of the people of Southbridge, Mass. (pop. 14.000) had nothing to look forward to but the dole last month when 104-year-old Hamilton Woolen Co., unable to settle a strike, voted to shut up shop (TIME, Jan. 28). Last week Southbridge was jubilant once more. The cloth designers had been called back to prepare their patterns for autumn. That could mean only one thing: the mill was not to close. That day Hamilton Woolen's President Richard Lennihan announced that arrangements had been made to sell the company to U. S. Bunting Co. of Lowell...