Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crew of 940 were trained in lifeboat drill daily and hardly slept. Drums of gasoline stood on deck in order to burn the Bremen at any moment. Lifeboats were kept swung over the side, and intake valves on the hull were ready to be opened...
...tourist cottages. On auction days, when the radio-beckoned crowds turn out in droves, Buzz wears a slick cowboy outfit and so do Claude and Esther. His roustabouts wear natty, filling-station-style uniforms with cowboy hats, clown around on bucking steers between sales. Buzz himself is no mail-order Westerner. Colorado-born, he worked for a spell as a brakeman on Spencer Penrose's Pike's Peak cog road. As a prelude to his success story, he tells the curious: "I'm no relation to the ex-President, the G-Man or the vacuum cleaner...
Radio News, neither pulp, puff-sheet nor good red herring, is one of the Ziff-Davis group of magazines for mail-order scientists (Popular Aviation, Popular Photography, etc.). Managing Editor of Radio News is Karl Kopetzky, who prides himself on having learned journalism from Walter Winchell. During the early war days, Editor Kopetzky listened to Murrow in London, Grandin in Paris, Jordan in Berlin, etc., was struck with the costly time devoted by U. S. broadcasters to innocent prattle about London weather, etc. With the unfailing suspicion of a Winchell-bred newshawk, he dispatched an undercover...
This question was justified by the condition of many a manufacturer's order books: to provide against price rises and shortage, his customers had swamped him with orders; now they have ordered and the foreign war purchasers have not yet come along; he has a huge backlog but few new orders coming in. Shall he operate at 100% till January-and trust to the gods for 1940 orders-or shall he operate at 75% and be sure of keeping busy till March...
...dance with female camp followers around the campfire, would break off abruptly to dictate (in Spanish, French or English) his fast, polished sentences to a secretary. He pardoned his venal aides, refused to feather his own nest, praised his generals unstintedly. He deliberately resigned as Supreme Chief in order to discourage dictatorship...