Word: nut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surrounded by his nut trees. Governor Bilbo pondered these facts, and others, wrote a speech in which he forecast Mississippi's future, told why it got in such a bad hole. Later in the week he set forth on a typical Bilboan barnstorming trip through the State's swamp towns and back-country villages. State law barred him from re-election but he was bent on picking his own successor...
Most enlightening report came from the Department of Commerce which carefully stipulated that it must not be construed as an official finding. The Department inspectors dug the engines out of the earth to find that the right outboard engine had no propeller blades nor propeller hub, although the safety nut which holds them in place was still intact. The hub must have been broken. If, as reported, ice collected on the wings then it may have collected on the propeller hub too. A piece of ice dislodged from the hub might have struck a whirling blade and broken...
Each week brings its grist of Federal action under this statute. Fortnight ago it was the nut, bolt & rivet men whose trade association was dissolved by a U. S. court (TIME, March 30). Last week it was the sugar and steel industries upon which Attorney General Mitchell opened fire. The steelmakers, he charged, had for ten years conspired to fix the price of steel rails at $43 per ton. But far more spectacular was his suit in the U. S. District Court, New York City, to dissolve the Sugar Institute, whose 50 member-corporations refine more than...
...Many vagaries of diet are advised by food faddists which run from nothing but grapes to almost nothing but oranges? through purely vegetarian, largely meat, fat-poor, salt-poor, vitamin-rich, sugar-poor, carbohydrate-rich, only milk and largely nut diets?with the expectancy that soon someone will exploit a blubber diet. . . . All these dietary regimens seem to succeed in ratio to the psychological influence of the adviser and the psychopathic complex of the advisee." He advised merely eating less ordinary foods and being satisfied with a pound a week loss of weight...
...Government charged that after standardizing their products the combined bolt & nut men, controlling 95% of the business, had carried the Hoover doctrine a step too far, had fixed prices by means of discounts, allowances and "a system of freight equalization for preferred customers." Among the associated companies, which did an annual business of $75,000,000, were: Bethlehem Steel Co., Automatic Screw Machine Products Co., Erie Bolt & Nut Co.. Pacific Coast Steel Corp., Wrought Iron Co. of America. Defending counsel included James Francis Burke, counsel for the Republican National Committee, and onetime Governor Nathan L. Miller of New York...