Word: hitch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Generalissimo Francisco Franco never more certain of ultimate victory, England and France made ungainly haste to hitch a free ride on his chariot...
What put Corcoran, Hopkins & Co. into the armament business was a chance to hitch New Deal pump-priming to National Defense. In the democratic jitters after Munich they saw a glittering opportunity to butter up and stimulate heavy industry without surrendering to it on the issues of labor, utilities, regulation. The bright prospect to them was that businessmen who got Government millions in armament orders could hardly object to continued and even intensified regulation, especially if it were in the name of National Defense. Public health, housing, power, all could be tied to Rearmament-for-uplift, and Franklin Roosevelt would...
...Paris the strike fell flat. Trains, trams, busses, trucks moved. The Government offices operated without a hitch. The factories opened and the workers, except in a very few instances, went to work. For example, of the nearly 20,000 Paris subway workers, only 200 failed to report for duty. At 8 a.m. the powerful Subway Workers Union revoked its strike order and by noon Paris was doing business as usual...
Bronzed, able-bodied Clark Wyly, 28, has as much claim as anyone to the title of "typical U. S. seaman." Texas-born, he. took to the Navy as soon as the law allowed. After a six-year hitch he signed as an able seaman on the Panama Pacific liner California. This fall the California and her sisterships Virginia and Pennsylvania became the Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina of the Maritime Commission's Good Neighbor Fleet (American Republics Line). At Rio de Janeiro on November 4, on the Uruguay's maiden voyage, a Brazilian longshoreman fell off a gangplank, caromed...
Editor Merz ran the school paper in his home town of Sandusky. Ohio, served a one-year hitch as an intelligence officer in the War. He worked for the New York World through the seven lean years before its demise. He has had seven fat years since on the Times where he distinguished himself as an able articulator of the ideas of Publisher Arthur Hays ("The Boss") Sulzberger. For some time he has been one of the august council of seven-that tunes the Times. His new, sober post will probably not dim his quick...