Word: panning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cyanide eggs were dropped into a pan of sulfuric acid; at 10:39:30 the fumes reached the pig. It staggered to its feet nine times. At 10:40:05 it fell to the bottom of the cage. At 10:41:40 all reflex actions stopped, two minutes 20 seconds after the start of the execution...
...representatives have bestirred themselves. But last week, of the 113,014 Federal employes in Washington, he alone made practically all the news. Renewing his contact with the electorate by radio, addressing Congress for the first time on Recession, communicating unconventionally with the House & Senate tax committees, greeting Pan America, appointing a new Red Cross head, Franklin Roosevelt showed a brilliant dash of the old form (see following columns...
...sinking of the Titanic. Auguries and omens are things which Franklin Roosevelt ignores. Last week, he began April 14 by working till 2 145 a. m. preparing the message to Congress. After six hours' sleep, he rose, breakfasted, sent the message to the Capitol, delivered the Pan-American Day speech at the Pan-American Union Building, received six Campfire Girls and a delegation of United Automobile Workers officials, and delivered the fireside chat...
Between telling Congress how he proposed to end the Depression and telling the country what he had told Congress, Franklin Roosevelt last week sandwiched in a warning to European dictators against meddling with South America. Said he in a Pan-American Day broadcast to South America, at which his immediate audience consisted of the 20 Pan-American diplomatic missions in Washington...
...trustee," he claims C. & O.'s present management has shown its worth by its success, that his simplification plans would benefit Alleghany bondholders, that Guaranty's claim to impartiality was exploded when it rejected as possible "impartial" directors for Chesapeake such bigwigs proposed by Young as Pan American Airways' Juan Trippe, U. S. Steel's Edward R. Stettiaius Jr., Manufacturers Trust's Harvey Dow Gibson...