Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...write this dispatch 21 bombers are raining heavy bombs on the oil and alcohol refineries. The table under my hand is shaking like something alive. In this infernal din set up by screaming sirens, barking anti-aircraft guns and the roar of bursting bombs I can't take my mind off the shivering of the wall of this ancient hotel. If it holds together until I can get this off, then I will believe in miracles...
...another Munich. Some who had thought that Poland would hold out for weeks or months were caught napping. Others had looked for a big battle on the Western Front when Polish fighting bogged down in mud that never came. One & all, they cooled their heels last week, copied official hand-outs from the Ministry of Information in London, drank pernods at the bar of the Hotel Lancaster in Paris, while youngsters who had never seen a war before kept cables quivering with stories of a nation's despair and death...
...Cleveland's Warner & Swasey Co. recently polled 251 corporate users of machine tools to see what percent of tools on hand were obsolete. Findings: of 120,864 machine tools in place, only 9.6% were bought between 1936-38, the years of most revolutionary machine tool engineering advance; 67.3% were bought before 1928, are covered with technological cobwebs. Although machine tools make mass production possible, machine tool building is itself a long-drawn-out, artisan-like process, taking up to two years in specialized cases. To make this bottleneck worse, machine-tool builders are mostly small family concerns, with their...
...before hemisphere trade solidarity is achieved, there is many a headachy problem to be solved. One of these is straightening out foreign exchange, now all muddled because: 1) of the financial sleight-of-hand worked by Germany in building up its Latin American markets, 2) some South American currencies (notably the Argentine) have been tied to the bouncing British pound...
...Besides his own Echo of Spring, Morning Air, Fading Star, The Lion plays six numbers written by others. Two of these represent him at his very best and worst. On Tea for Two the briskness and sprightliness, as they must occasionally to all improvising pianists, get way out of hand. His sincerest admirers will play oftener the solider, more artfully imaginative passages of The Boy and the Boat, a number which should make even plain listeners' feet pat as rapidly as their cheeks would blush if the meaning of its title were generally known...