Word: hornet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always thought that the reason Snavely stirred up a hornet's nest by the charge that Duke took movies of Carolina's games previous to their skirmish in 1935 was due to the fact that it was in those films that the Duke staff found out that Coach Snavely also played quaretrback. It was quite a sight...
...rent reductions. By the city's latest survey of $49-and-under rentals, vacancies were 2% less than the norm. Fighting rent increases and non-renewal notices in all parts of the city, the tough little City-Wide Tenants Council and its 22 tenant union leagues were hornet-mad. Formed in 1936 to promote better and cheaper housing, the Council has fraternal relations with militant tenants' unions in Great Britain and Philadelphia, is a constant source of trouble to landlords. Now is its busy season for negotiating, litigating and "striking...
...stopped at Langley Field (where 6,000 men now work, where 100 warplanes demonstrated). He wound up an eight-hour day, and 100 miles of travel, at the Newport News shipbuilding yard, looked at the new battleship Indiana taking shape, pondered the 45%-finished aircraft carrier Hornet, looked at the two new ways, two new piers, the machine shop and turret shop that are now being built...
National Defense Minister Colonel J. (for James) L. (for Lay ton) Ralston reported to the House of Commons in Ottawa on the senior Dominion's progress. Earnest in appearance, soft of voice, brisk of manner, like a hornet for energy (he has worked between 16 and 20 hours a day for the last month), J. L. Ralston is widely considered the ablest man in Canada's wartime Government and the one most likely to succeed Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. His report glowed...
Into Manhattan's Hotel Commodore last week swarmed 750 members of the National Association of Building Owners and Managers. Coming from 70 U. S. cities, they were hornet-mad about a politico-economic national scandal. The scandal is that urban property taxes are so high that they drive population to suburbs, so that city real estate and city governments face bankruptcy together. Of the gross annual income of $7,000,000,000 derived from U. S. real estate, $4,500,000,000 goes for taxes...