Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world disaster: a plea to Germany, Poland, Britain, France, Italy to refrain from bombing "open" cities and noncombatants. Within a few hours the heads of all these nations replied, in a chorus that sounded sickeningly cynical however truly meant: they would each do as Mr. Roosevelt suggested so long as their antagonists did likewise. Mussolini took the occasion to reiterate Italy's neutrality...
...after a bitter legal battle, elected Chief of Staff Edward John Higgins as General. In 1934 the Booth dynasty was revived with the election of masterful, hawk-nosed Evangeline Cory Booth. Daughter of William and sister of Bramwell, she loved the Army more than any man she ever met, long headed its work...
Sperry Corp. owns Ford Instrument Co. which makes naval gunfire control devices in its closely guarded plant at Long Island City, N. Y., recently bought Waterbury (Conn.) Tool Co. and Vickers, Inc., of Detroit, which manufacture hydraulic pumps and variable speed transmissions. But it is proudest of its biggest and oldest subsidiary, Sperry Gyroscope Co. of Brooklyn and of its English brother, Sperry Gyroscope Co., Ltd., which has just set up a new factory in the English Midlands, to carry on if its London plant is bombed...
...take some of the profit out of Pepsi-Cola by boosting the price of sugar (considerably more of it goes into its double-sized bottle than into a bottle of Coca-Cola). But it will have to be a long war. Last month, with a year's supply on hand or under contract, Pepsi-Cola extended its war hedge, contracted for a full three-year supply. Meanwhile, there has been no indication that Loft's restaurant chain has ceased to lose money. But, with Loft stock selling as high as 16 5/8 even in last week...
...Long Island, American Bullfighter Sidney Franklin, decked out in cerise cape and a sheathed wooden sword, got ready to put on a bull-dodging act for a New York World's Fair rodeo. On hand were representatives of the S. P. C. A., 200 spectators, a bull in a corral. When somebody opened the gate to the corral, nothing happened. To attract the bull's attention cowboys did a dance in front of the gate. The bull didn't budge. Steers were driven into the chute as decoys. The bull looked the other way. Twenty minutes later...