Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think that insolent, bizarre and colorful phraseology which attracted notice in 1926 and 1927 would again serve today. Continue flinging mud, because we also can play the same game, and the charges we have made against you are true, known to every...
...hope for business, according to Kettering. is in the development of products rather than "stirring up the mud." Said he: "There is a horrible thing in this world known as monotony. When we continue to produce the same things, the same model indefinitely . . . the people don't want to buy it. ... We are suffering today from that thing called standardization. . . . Never has it been so difficult to sell a new idea as it is today. We are suffering with industrial stagnation, and that is all that is wrong with...
...water that is coming down the Colorado River at the present time and which will come down all the time, has a mud content of from 5% to 8% and that the lake which will be formed back of the dam, to be built, will fill up with mud and silt and make same a mud lake within ten years...
...President Hoover last week took his tall, angular friend Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, and eight Wilbur assistants. Their purpose: to devise Interior economies to help reduce the prospective billion-dollar budget. When the executives came down the mountainside (their cars in low gear because of mud), a plan had been worked out whereby $4,000,000 would be snipped out of Interior expenditures this year, $6,000,000 next year, $8,000,000 the year after. Added to the War Department pruning planned the previous week-end (see p. 19), the Interior cut will take...
MANY THOUSANDS GONE-John Peale Bishop-Scribner ($2.50).* Not only in biography but, more significantly, in fiction U. S. writers are more & more turning to U. S. subjects. And to a generation that is still scraping off the mud and blood of the War to End War the comparatively chivalrous affair between North and South has an increasingly romantic appeal. These five short stories, with one exception, are tales of the Civil War from the Southern point of view. A Southern farmer comes home to find his mother's grave ripped open by Yankee raiders. He traps them...