Word: hob
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the hurricane of 1938 swarmed over Long Island, it played hob with the oyster beds. That is one reason for higher oyster prices this year. Oystermen have other foes. Nastiest is a thing called the drill, which bores through the oyster's shell, devours the oyster. One active drill can liquidate 30 to 200 oysters a season; a swarm of them can wipe out a young crop. But most oystermen save their wrath for the starfish (good for nothing but fertilizer), which glaums on an oyster, wears it out until it opens up, then eats it. Oystermen fight...
...them busy at Ft. Benning and Ft. Knox, far from the maneuvers. The same was true of planes: the Air Corps needed most of its planes for its training program. For reconnaissance, Blue and Black Army commanders had observation planes, but almost no attack planes, which could have played hob with troop movements, especially river crossings. The handful of pursuit and bombardment pilots detailed to the maneuvers spent most of their time dogfighting, testing a telephone warning system for tracing the course of invading enemy aircraft by plotting locations where civilian volunteers reported bombers overhead...
...State Guide Books. Ex-Director Alsberg is credited with the plan whereby established publishing houses bring them out. Viking Press has published nine. Oxford University Press and Hastings House are each publishers of seven. Houghton Mifflin published the six New England Guides, soured a little when Massachusettsians raised hob about the amount of space given to Sacco and Vanzetti. Publishers have not made much money out of the Guide Books, but report a steady sale...
Last month Banker Giannini called off the sale. Events in Europe had played hob with securities sales, only 50.460 shares ($2,523,200 worth) had been subscribed. Last week frustrated A. P. announced that Transamerica Corp. (Bank of America's biggest stockholder) had bought the unsubscribed stock - but not with its own money. Angel of the deal was RFC, rebuffed but ever-ready. It advanced Transamerica $27,533,800 at 3½ % for ten years...
Because unions are combinations in potential restraint of trade, indiscriminate application of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act to them would raise hob with U. S. Labor. In particular, unions would lose their most potent weapon: the strike...