Word: lite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the new law, the navy and air force will become corps d'élite, manned entirely by four-year volunteers...
...professionally impartial Chairman Sir John Eldon Bankes, a retired Lord Justice of Appeal, will be assisted by ex-War Correspondent Sir Philip (Now It Can be Told) Gibbs, Dame Rachel Crowdy of the League of Nations élite antinarcotic squad, Editor-Historian J. Alfred Spender, Lancashire Industrialist Sir Kenneth Lee, Dean Harold Cooke Gutheridge, Law Professor at Cambridge University and Sir Thomas Allen, chief of the Socialist Co-operative Insurance Society, a thorn in British munitions makers' sides...
Another is Percy H. Johnson, governor of the Bankers Club and chairman of the board of the Chemical Bank and Trust Company. He is director of the Electric Auto-Lite of Toledo, also a paid advisor of the Soviet Auto Trust...
...Last February Moto Meter Gauge & Equipment Corp. (instrument boards, auto gadgets) was gobbled up by its Toledo neighbor Electric Auto-Lite, presumably to edge into Moto Meter's lucrative business with Walter P. Chrysler. Last week Moto Meter's brusque, efficient President Royce G. Martin was made head of Auto-Lite, succeeding Clement O. Miniger, ignition tycoon, onetime drug salesman, who became board chairman...
...Toledo Auto-Lite strike and the Minneapolis truck strike were fought with clubs. The other strikes of 1934 are to be fought with boards. Under his new authority President Roosevelt last week began replacing the old National Labor Board with new and smaller agencies to ease the tension on the industrial front. The first board created was for the biggest current strike; the second was for what threatened to be an even bigger strike...