Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reconciling capital and labor was that he offered the latter a constructive program: the Corporative State Whether or no this State is but another form of capitalistic domination, it has succeeded to a remarkable extent in putting an end to such forms of economic waste as the strike, the lookout, sabotage etc. Prior to Mussolini's accession, Italy was so torn with violent industrial disturbances that communism was believed by many to be inevitable. But in his particular mode of Fascism, Mussolini prevented the inevitable. The voice of American labor seems, for the moment at least, to be stilled...
Following his company's instructions to be on the lookout for counterfeit gold bills or bills of large denominations, Manager Lyle wrote on the margin of the note he had just received the license number of the Dodge sedan: 4U-13-41. Next day he gave the bill to an employe named John Lyons, told him to take it to a nearby branch of the Corn Exchange Bank, see if it was genuine. Lyons was told it was. Three days later the bank turned the bill over to the New York office of the Department of Justice...
...British of exclusive Persian oil pipe-line rights (TIME, May 15, 1933). Observed a cynical Soviet diplomat well posted on Sir John Cadman's negotiations: "Persia is fundamentally sound. They will sell you the country six times over, but that makes no difference. They are always on the lookout to sell it again. Da, da [yes, yes], Persia is fundamentally sound!" It was this fundamental of Persian policy which made oil such a pleasing subject of converse last week at Ankara. The stronger the two nations become, the more firmly they knit bonds of Moslem unity across the Near...
...daybreak the White Star liner Olympic, 23-year-old sister ship of the Titanic, picked up faintly the signal of No. 117, set a course for it. Almost seven hours later a horrified shout burst from a lookout. Bells jangled, the four giant screws threshed madly in reverse, seamen rushed to man lifeboats. Carried helplessly forward by its own momentum, the 46,000-ton liner crunched into the little lightship, cut it in two. Four of the lightship's crew of eleven were never found, and three died after being picked up by the Olympic's lifeboats...
...successor has been appointed so far, but it is understood that University Hall officials have been on the lookout for a man to take the place of the retiring dean...