Word: hooded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From ship to ship the message passed, from the Rodney to the Nelson, the Hood, the Repulse, the York, Dorsetshire, Norfolk, Warspite and Malaya. All eyes were on the Valiant. Would she obey orders? If she did it seemed certain that the rest of the fleet would follow. But on the Valiant boatswains piped themselves blue in the face. The crew remained below decks. Officers had an anxious huddle on the quarterdeck. Conscious that the eyes of Britain were on them, they attempted to hoist anchor themselves. Forward they found two pickets of thick-necked sailors standing guard over...
...Edison Employes publicly protested the selection of their company's president, Matthew Scott Sloan, for this committee, on the ground that he had turned out 2,000 workers last spring, was not sincerely interested in unemployment relief. Retorted Mr. Sloan: "I don't know what the Brother hood of Brooklyn Edison Employes is." Not all of the President's advisory committeemen were as opposed as he to direct Federal aid. Declared President William Green of the American Federation of Labor: "We'll find later that appropriations will have to be made. ... It will require heroic efforts...
...dozen eggs. Neither the hen nor any of the eggs was damaged. Their fall, from an airplane 3,300 ft. high, was a demonstration of a new parachute designed by Soviet experts. Developed to support only small loads, the chute was of conventional design, but with a rubber hood affixed over its basket. The hood fills with air and expands in descent, decreasing the rate of fall to about 16.4 ft. per sec. (Ordinary rate of fall of U. S. made parachutes with a man of average weight: 18 to 20 ft. per sec. Force of landing is equivalent...
...York Philharmonic Orchestra there for three weeks. After a program of Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Bach and Brahms (apparently his favorite composer), he was given tokens of esteem in recognition of his ten-year association with the Stadium concerts, set out for Philadelphia to direct the Philadelphia Orchestra concerts in Robin Hood Dell Park. Next he will go to Europe, return in the autumn to conduct his seventh season in Portland...
After two weeks at the Stadium, he will go to Philadelphia where he, too, will conduct a week at Robin Hood Dell...