Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...different kinds: those whose tremendous genius sweeps them through the world and those who rise to equal heights through the perfect fusion of more ordinary talents. Washington was the second kind, and his legend suffers in consequence; for we demand spectacular superlatives today before we call a man a giant. Yet Washington was a giant; the perfect harmony and balance of his character may go unheralded today, but it is as important now as it was one hundred and fifty years...
Radio's competition for news and advertising, which has toppled many a city giant, has scarcely rippled the grass roots press, whose most valuable news is the kind that the radio would not broadcast even if it could...
...this unfamiliar phenomenon electrical engineers took little note until three years ago when Karl Boyer McEachron, General Electric Co.'s ace lightning researcher, started a study of bolts which strike Manhattan's 1,230-foot Empire State Building, a giant lightning rod. During his study Mr. McEachron observed that several strokes which hit the skyscraper made no noise. Last week he had an explanation...
...Labor history. In 1934-35 the onetime Baptist minister in Kansas City helped organize U. A. W. as an A. F. of L. union. In 1936 he took it into C. I. O. In 1937 he fought and won a bitter strike with General Motors, signed up that giant, and all motormakers except Henry Ford. In 1938, he quarreled with his co-founders and lieutenants, and his union of 375,000 men (third largest in C. I. O.) was saved from falling apart only when John L. Lewis practically took control of it. Last week Homer Martin upset this much...
Arriving in London with five baby giant pandas, first ever seen alive in Europe, bespectacled Floyd Tangier ("Ajax") Smith, onetime U. S. banker in China who turned big-game hunter, posed for pictures with one of them. He plans to sell some in London, take the rest...