Word: moving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London next year. To save New Zealand's currency, early last winter Prime Minister Savage not only set up control of exchange but took the drastic step of restricting imports by 10%, announced that for the last half of 1939 imports would be restricted by 33⅓%. This move, although resulting in a more favorable trade balance, was deeply resented by British Empire manufacturers who had always had a free and open market in the Dominion...
...Next move of stubborn Julius Heil was to get a bill introduced into the Wisconsin Senate to abolish the university's 14-man Board of Regents, replace it with a nine-man board, which the Governor would appoint. The Milwaukee Post reported that Governor Heil had said to a Senator: "If we can pass this regents bill, Brother Dykstra can look around for another job." The Senate did pass the bill, sent it to the Assembly. Last week the Assembly passed it, sent it back to the Senate with a minor amendment, which was expected to be quickly accepted...
...Petersburg, Fla., two ladies protested to the city manager because the drakes on Mirror Lake outnumbered the ducks, 5 to 1. Reported Public Works Head Frank Lee, to whom the complaint was referred: "I doubt whether we will be able to reason with the drakes and induce them to move elsewhere. As far as I have been able to determine, we have received no complaints from the female ducks...
When it does, he gives tongue. He swings a leg over the arm of the chair, his coat begins to crawl up his back, his big hands move in expressive gesture. In a few minutes he is sitting up straight, his forelock is hanging in his eyes. His talk, with a native Indiana tang, is even more vigorous. To hell with formality. He talks as men do in the locker room, and spices his profanity with the Bible, Shakespeare and law. He spills out figures, dates, technical facts, historical parallels. When the argument grows hot his eyes get hawklike...
Sportsmen and municipal officials set up such a howl that papermaking States have threatened to crack down on the dumping. Some foresighted paper-mill operators had hired chemists to see whether the waste liquor could be turned to profit. One of the leaders in that move was cagey Marathon Paper Mills Co. (food containers, waxed-paper wrappers). To its plant at Rothschild, Wis. twelve years ago it summoned lanky, sensitive Guy Howard, free-lance consulting chemist, and gave him a staff of researchers. Since then it has put $1,500,000 into its chemical division...