Word: landed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retained as managers in their own plants, but with the Government allocating raw materials, dictating wages and prices and limiting and forcing new investment in accordance with Nazi conceptions of national welfare. Capital surpluses went into armaments; the Nazis ceased to build houses. The peasant was bound to his land by laws prohibiting the sale or mortgaging of hereditary homesteads, and farm production was indirectly managed through price-fixing boards. The great drive of Wehrwirtschaft, or war economy...
From the sprawling Consolidated Aircraft Corp. factory on Lindbergh Field a huge flying boat waddled down to land-locked San Diego Bay one day last week. In the bright California sun her slim wing looked absurdly frail, her huge hull with its upswept stern grotesquely fat. Nevertheless, her little band of professional observers knew they were watching a plane designed to be the last aerodynamic word...
First the fishermen searched the water for men from the Rose who had not had time to launch their dories. They found them all. Then, without food, water or compasses, they struck out, rowing steadily through the grey dawn toward the land somewhere about 100 miles westward. The sea was calm. For a while the dories kept in sight of one another, but soon they spread apart, going their own ways as they do when fishing. There was no disorder; every man knew they must make land or sight a ship before thirst broke their morale...
...five men from the Rose was picked up by the gasoline boat Amacitia off the coast of Nova Scotia. They had rowed 80 miles. A few minutes later, eight miles away, the Amacitia sighted another dory with four men from the Parker. One boat rowed all the way to land. Within 40 hours of the crash every last man had turned up, little the worse for wear. Captain Albert Hines of the Rose calculated that he and his own dory-mates had rowed 150 miles. The others didn't bother to figure carefully...
From this happy excitement of Kansas City the united Methodists went home to their muttons. On thousands of church buildings throughout the land, signs and plaques had to be replaced or repainted to exhibit the name of the new church. In many a locality where the work of the three late churches had overlapped, there would be mergers, although the Conference had warned against "hasty action for financial reasons." In truth, however, the Conference had itself performed some hasty actions for financial reasons-in order to adjourn before its Conference treasury was exhausted. In slapping together the nation...