Word: horned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours daily because of defective parts or supply of accessories." To the Gorky plant went a Pravda correspondent to investigate. For some minutes he watched the line of half-finished cars gliding serenely past. Suddenly the line stopped. "What is wrong?" he asked. Replied the foreman, "We have no horn to equip the next machine on the conveyor." After a half-hearted search lasting 30 minutes a worker dawdled up with three horns in his apron, and the line began to move once more. Said the foreman, "This sort of thing is constantly happening...
Plenty of cattlemen present remembered the tough old days. Past President Charles E. Collins, who has been in the saddle for 50 years and still rides his 50,000 Colorado acres in sub-zero weather, could recall the time when nothing except long-horn cattle roamed the range. And presented to the convention was Rev. L. R. Millican, 84, a wrinkled, white-thatched Baptist circuit-rider who as a boy knew General Sam Houston, father of Texas independence...
...which Oxonians thanked him for giving their medical school $6,250,000 that he got to his feet and cried out he would give Oxford another $3,750,000. explaining that he did so "on the sudden impulse of the moment." Punch promptly cartooned Nuffield honking a motor horn from which gold pieces pour into the inverted mortarboards of scrambling Oxford dignitaries...
...latest reports from China, pretty much everyone as well as Japan was trying to horn in on the kidnapping, and Sian was becoming almost a forum. Expected momentarily by air was Mr. Soong. It was rumored that Mme Chiang was coming. The North China satrap Marshal Yen Hsi-shan was already represented. Other Chinese satraps were rushing their ''advisers" to Sian. If kidnapped Dictator Chiang was still alive, he had an unrivaled opportunity to show his prowess in Leadership...
...trading day this month no less than nine of the 15 most active issues on the Big Board were stocks selling for less than $10 per share. Churned in volume lately have been such "penny" favorites as International Paper & Power Class C ($6.50), Elk Horn Coal preferred ($5.50), General Realty & Utilities ($4.50), Alleghany Corp. ($4.50), Commonwealth & Southern ($3.50), Pierce Petroleum ($2.75), Seaboard Air Line Ry. ($1.75), Consolidated Textile...