Word: motorcars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that would have thrown 200,000 men out of work, closed hundreds of plants, cut production in dozens of other industries, crippled the Midwest and seriously retarded the President's whole recovery program. Now the board's primary job was to untangle the unionization dispute between the motorcar makers and the American Federation of Labor. After that its broad purpose was to put to the test the Administration's new and notable policy for dealing with labor disputes...
Dodsworth (adapted from the Sinclair Lewis novel by Sidney Howard; produced by Max Gordon). Motorcar Manufacturer Sam Dodsworth (Walter Huston) sells his business in bustling little Zenith so that he and his wife Fran (Fay Bainter) can enjoy leisure after 20 years of marriage. They go abroad, where Sam is excited by historic sights, Fran by the attentions of other men. She apologizes for Sam to her glassy continental friends, frankly tells him to go home and let her have her fling...
Swooping down, the seaplane landed just at the mouth of Rome's river, muddy Father Tiber. A motorcar whisked Sir John to the British Embassy. There he found the strongest foe in Rome to any change in the League, patient, sandy-mustached Sir Eric Drummond, now British Ambassador but for 14 years Secretary General of the League. Talks between II Duce and Sir John quickly crystallized around the issue of Disarmament. In Berlin the French Ambassador, bristling M. André François-Poncet who has personal connections with the French munitions firm of Schneider & Cie., had just delivered...
...apparatus, $3,000,000 in glass & glassware. That some of these products were not mentioned in the published summaries was taken to mean, not that they were omitted from the agreement, but that Canada wanted to avoid lobbying in Parliament and an inrush of goods for sale. U. S. motorcar manufacturers were delighted to learn that no agreement was reached increasing the "Empire content" of assembled products (in Canada, 50%; in Britain...
Suddenly a motorcar drew up with screeching brakes. Out leaped two naval lieutenants, an army sergeant and two corporals of Gendarmerie, all pointing pistols which made the guards run. Bursting into the Premier's lobby, the five attackers found it guarded by Policeman Yasomatsu Hirayama. They shot him, forced their way on into the helpless Old Fox's lair. Screamed his daughter-in-law: "Please let us escape...