Word: holing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...budget is going into the hole at the rate of about $200,000 per hour...
...interesting cinema document, but it contains also a number of sequences which are less reminiscent of propaganda newsreels released during the War: a mangled soldier being carried into a front line dressing station and coming out with both legs gone; an old Belgian woman sitting in a shell-hole beside the corpse of a soldier and snivelling into his hat; hand-to-hand trench fighting in which, although the photography is somewhat blurred, it is possible to see a real bayonet go through a real soldier; a squad of U. S. infantry going over the top into machine gun fire...
...Board of Estimate pledged a $40,000,000 budget cut-half in salaries, half in other expenses-to bankers who had helped the city out of a hole. After the salary cut had been made, Mayor O'Brien began to muse aloud to the Press to the effect that the rest of the reduction was just a "hope" which did not bind the city and that increased revenue from bridge tolls would be "very appropriate." From such talk the impression was inescapable that Tammany was weaseling on its economy promises...
...nasty weeds like Calgary Eye-Opener, published by the ex-wife of Capt. Billy Fawcett. Out went innumerable local sheets like Manhattan's Metropolitan Home Journal. In came innumerable others like William H. Hanna's respectable Minneapolis Opinion, scandal-mongering Detroit Merry Go Round and Hollywood Peep Hole. A handful of woodpulps were junked, twelve published by Fiction House were suspended at one swoop. Babies: Just Babies was born. So were Beer, Metropolitan Mothers' Guide, Family Circle, Pastime, American Spectator, Brass Tacks, Common Sense . . . many, many & many another...
...feet down he worked, sometimes swinging high in the air, sometimes soused deep in the creamy waves. Five other men were on shorter ladders trying to keep him from being dashed against the side of the ship. After a breathless, drenching hour, the monkey rope was passed through the hole, the plug hammered home. On the inside Staff Captain Giorgio Cavallini and the chief engineer, waist deep in water, sealed the patch with cement mixed-with scrap metal...