Word: handed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor knew, as did others, that troops were dispatched for the purpose of protecting both sides. It surely must be significant that organized Labor raised not a hand against my confirmation as Security Administrator by the Senate...
...common sense and pat slogans like: "Take Care of Your Gas Mask and Your Gas Mask Will Take Care of You." When enemy planes are overhead, "the motto for safety will be Keep it Dark." Britons are warned to memorize the types of raid signals. The man who confuses hand rattles ("gas") with hand bells ("all clear") will be sorry that he did not do his homework...
Since the garaging of the Capone machine, Jack Bilbo has had a hand in several less lucrative activities abroad-organizing anti-Nazi movements in Germany (pre-Hitler), fighting for Haile Selassie in Abyssinia, for the Spanish Loyalists in Catalonia. On the side he says he found time to design three German villas and his own residence in Spain...
Missing from these trade figures, moreover, is an item vital to warring Japan. In the last two years she has sold the U.S. $415,209,648 worth of gold, $4,202,856 worth of silver. She is now reported to have only about $140,000,000 of gold on hand. Last week Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. said he was taking a "fresh look" at gold and silver purchases from Japan...
Marathon is now producing the new lignin plastic at the rate of 25 tons a day, has raw materials on hand for a top production of 400 tons daily. Last year the company's net sales were $11,109,000. Last week its officials announced a $1,500,000 expansion program. But Chemist Howard was still scouting ahead. His goal: to establish his new chemical talk-of-the-town as the most important addition to the world's store of raw materials since coal tar and cellulose...