Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most publicized feature of General Motors' 1935 Pontiacs and Oldsmobiles are their "turret tops," which are exuberantly compared to the gun turrets of battleships. Immensely strong, sleek, graceful, they are shaped in a single mighty operation from single sheets of seamless steel. To whip them out the company's Fisher Body division has 18 giant new presses, largest of the kind ever built. Glowering edifices of gears, shafting, cable, motors and massive slides, the tallest of them tower 27 ft. above the floors, extend down another 12½ ft. into concrete pits. They deliver against the blanks...
...game hunting on Plympton Street: gentleman in first floor room of Adams squat C-section is annoyed by urchin--flung snowball; gentleman, entertaining woman, thinks valor the better part of discretion; gentleman, being sportsman, has double-barrelled shotgun; gentleman, being copiously refreshed with liquid refreshments, grabs gun and runs out into street; woman, being likewise, follows, coat absent and hair flying in the wind; gentleman, supported on the slippery ice by woman, aims gun at urchin; urchin, being heroic, stands ground, grabs snow, molds missile, projects it with zeal and fervor; woman, being on ice and copiously refreshed, dedges...
...publishers insisted that the Labor Board had no jurisdiction over newspaper employes' complaints; that the Newspaper Code provided a special Industrial Board, composed of four employers' and four employes' representatives to handle such matters. Up to the line of battle the publishers trundled their biggest field gun, when Howard Davis, plump, sleek president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association and chairman of the Code Authority, told members to hold themselves in readiness for a convention call, presumably to consider mass withdrawal from...
...observers expected the Industrial Board to accomplish anything. Its eight members are almost always deadlocked, and a ninth impartial member can be called in only by a majority vote. Back to NRA went the Jennings case, and Mr. Davis again unlimbered his big gun, this time definitely calling a convention for Jan. 28 in Manhattan's Hotel Biltmore. In vain did Presidential Secretary Louis Howe and Secretary of Labor Perkins work for a compromise...
...publishers. . . . The President made no attempt to learn from the Guild its bill of complaints against the stupidities and inequities of the Newspaper Industrial Board. . . . The Government . . . has been held up by the threat and the bluff of the publishers. . . . The President surrendered at the point of a wooden gun...