Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were operating at only about 55% of normal. Then came threat of inflation. The silk mills bought and manufactured hastily. In June silk prices mounted to $2.25. It looked as if Mr. Imai's industry would soon be back on its feet, but public purchasing did not keep pace. Silk prices flopped...
...opera, music, art, museums to offset its physical crudities. It is strong, lusty, loud and ambitious. Many a Chicagoan confidently predicts that his city will soon surpass New York in size and importance, become "The Paris of the West." Yet in the matter of mayors, Chicago has not kept pace with its other manifestations of greatness. Irish son of an Irish policeman, Edward Joseph Kelly was born 57 May Days ago on Chicago's West 38th Street. At 17 he got a job as axman with the Sanitary District then building the Drainage Canal near his home. Later...
During the whole voyage tall, patrician, spear-bearded Captain Francesco Tarabotto of the Rex snatched scarcely two hours sleep out of each 24, constantly paced the bridge. Below decks the four turbines of 130,000 rated horsepower and the 14 boilers which burn 700 tons of oil a day to drive the Rex at her usual 26 knots were devouring 1,100 tons. As jovial, ruddy Chief Engineer Luigi Risso turned on more & more steam, pushed up the pace from the Rex's fast norm to a terrific, record average speed of 28.92 knots both officers and passengers noticed...
...placed some 9,000,000 workers under work & wage codes signed by 1,000,000 employers. This showing, however, did not satisfy Recovery Administrator Hugh Samuel Johnson. Heavy industries (steel, automobiles, oil, coal) were harder to codify than expected. Re-employment figures did not seem to be keeping pace with the spread of the Blue Eagle. There was more & more talk about "chiselers." Said General Johnson: "We haven't started to apply the heat on this thing yet. This isn't a campaign of a week or a month. It's a drive we're going...
...this is quite as spurious as it sounds but, hobbling atmospherically along with that artfully erratic pace which Director William Dieterle uses to give his adventure stories glamour, it makes acceptable entertainment. Typical shot: Victor Jory -an able, sharp-faced young actor who has become a featured player after his first five pictures-gloomily apologizing to Loretta Young for kissing...