Word: gaspeing
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...Germans, of course, have almost no petroleum. But neither (relatively speaking) has the U.S. Any day now-perhaps in only 15 years-the last U.S. oil wells will begin to gurgle, gasp and dry up. And, said the Bureau of Mines last week, look at synthetic rubber: we all wish serious work on that had begun before last Dec 7. Look also at Alaska: it has lots of coal and no oil,* and perhaps gasoline can be made on the spot cheaper than it can be hauled in by tanker (though Alaska's chief ports are no farther from...
...Socialist Blum's answers to charges that he sold out France to sit-down strikers and Communist intriguers. He had dealt with Communists, he said, because it was "impossible to defend republican ideals by excluding a large mass of the people." With a daring that made the courtroom gasp, he spoke of a Communist, recently a saboteur, "who often bitterly attacked...
...Scratch who has the picture's last word. Perched on a rail fence, full of the peach pie which Ma Stone baked especially for the victorious orator, he thumbs jauntily through his address book for a fresh victim. And the person he picks makes any audience gasp...
...Quiet Flows the Don (TIME, July 2, 1934) Sholokhov marshaled a big cast of Cossacks through the vicissitudes of war and revolution, left them at the brink of civil war. In this, its 777-page sequel, he carries them through that war to its last exhausted gasp in the Bolshevik triumph...
...most significant new line announced last week was a 250-mile short cut from Portland (Me.) to Montreal. Standard of New Jersey has already ordered the tubing, and expects to finish the job in less than eight months. It will replace the long tanker haul around the Gaspé and up the St. Lawrence to Canada's chief distributing point. Its significance: the transport problem is a hemispheric problem, and its solution must see that the U.S.'s neighbors are served...