Word: leads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alps. Allied strategy was to bring such pressure as would sap strength from the German drive into Poland. General understanding was that the French would conduct all operations by land, with the infantry reinforced at first only by a few mechanized British divisions. The British would take the lead...
Morning after the invasion of Poland, the lead-off Woman's Page story in London's high-class big-circulation Daily Telegraph was headlined UNDERWEAR, ran as follows...
...confidential job from Army and Navy, soon branched out into the design and manufacture of complicated fire control devices, antiaircraft searchlights. Prize Sperry antiaircraft product is the Sound Locator-Searchlight, which picks out flying raiders by sound, focuses the lights on them, trains antiaircraft guns so that they "lead" bombing flights as a duck-hunter leads a flying mallard...
...work on some of Hollywood's richest cinemagnates for alleged income-tax evasion and antitrust violations, and on the powerful stagehands union on charges of labor racketeering. Murphy men are also pressing ahead with their case against William ("Billy") Skidmore, gambling overlord of Chicago. That case might lead to self-righteous purging of the New Deal's loud-spoken Boss-Mayor Ed Kelly of Chicago. And Murphy men are after Atlantic City's Republican Boss Enoch ("Nucky") Johnson. That case might lead to action against the New Deal's biggest black sheep of all: Boss Frank...
...long ago the Lascelles boys, with a group of fellow Etonians, inspected some antiaircraft guns at Leeds. They used their observations for a 900-word lead story in the August issue of Harewood News, illustrating it with cute pictures of a gun and a bomber. A copy of the News found its way to the Manchester Daily Express, which sent the story to its London office, which sent a reporter to the War Office...