Word: largest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unless forced to, seemed on its way to a final test. But three days after its Inland ruling, the NLRB gave Mr. Girdler something more immediate to worry about. In a bristling 60,000-word decision, the board held the $343,000,000 Republic Steel Corp., third largest in the nation, in flagrant violation of the act. Growing out of the strike last summer in Ohio they included: responsibility for causing the strike, open sponsorship of company unions, discriminatory discharges of union members, espionage, terrorization, incitement of violence, responsibility for "an unprovoked attack" on strikers in Massillon which resulted...
...Yominri, the plane in which the eight fled was chased by Soviet Secret Political Police aircraft. It shot down one of the pursuing planes on the Manchukuo-Soviet border, was itself shot down by other Ogpu planes. The eight Soviet officers were killed in the crash. Yominri, the third largest Tokyo paper, spends much time slyly baiting Japan's dominant militarist clique, is considered radical by the Militarists...
...active religious department, the federation, under the presidency of devout James G. K. McClure Jr., has been well pleased with results of the Lord's Acre Plan, has furnished information concerning it to churchmen in 40 States. Some 325 North Carolina churches, of eleven denominations, employ it. The largest, a Baptist church in Hendersonville, received $2,352 last year from 40-odd acres planted to corn, sweet potatoes, cabbages, etc. Rev. B. M. Strickland (Baptist) reported that since his people have taken up the Lord's Acre Plan he has performed more baptisms. Said he: "The work...
...German State Railway (Deutsche Reichsbahn), world's largest system,* all tracks, rolling stock and property of the 3,628-mile Austrian State Railways. Said an official announcement from the German Railroads Information Office, which last week closed all U. S. bureaus of the Austrian State Tourist Department: "The rejoicing of Austria and the happiness of the Austrian and German people over their long desired reunion will also be a boon to travelers: the dark clouds of political uncertainty have drifted away...
...previous African trip Loveridge captured between 400 and 500 snakes, the largest a 14 foot python weighing 130 pounds, which had just swallowed a bushbuck...