Word: phased
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first phase of the maneuver, the military judges decided that "The Blues" -who could only have been Italian invaders coming from the tongue of territory sticking out at France near Modane -were not able to take the Galibier Pass, which "proved impregnable...
...Campbell snorted: "You can't catch water in a bucket that is already full." Authority Chairman Fritz Englehard retorted that the flood control phase of the project will not be complete until Marshall Ford Dam is finished, 18 months hence. The present dams are not supposed to. control floods, but to produce power. Even so, the uppermost dam, Buchanan, would not have been too full to hold the flood but for inadequate river readings from upstream, which had let floodwaters catch the engineers napping. Dissatisfied flood victims, remembering that the Authority had taken credit for holding back a similar...
Depression having reached the normal phase of protest strikes against pay cuts and layoffs, Akron rubber workers last week reacted with enthusiasm and a surprising measure of success. Following depression in the motor industry, 37½ percent of the 40,000 normally employed in Akron by Goodyear, Goodrich, Firestone and General rubber companies were out of work. Like their C. I. O. brothers in Michigan, members of the United Rubber Workers of America complain that they are getting the short end of retrenchment. Young, levelheaded U. R. W. President Sherman Dalrymple accuses the companies of demoting foremen and other supervisors...
...Government meeting, concentrators pointed out that the only course in the history of any phase of government is Dean Pound's, which appears most valuable for future Law School men. Yet one cannot study government without at the same time studying history; thus, a course in American party government must include the historical background of the parties and of the pressure groups influencing them...
Right in SEC's face a month ago, the Continental Securities case exploded; in court April 23 (TIME, May 2), counsel declared Continental's $3,300,000 assets had dwindled to $20,000. Last week-as SEC was laboriously delving into another phase of its investment trust inquiry, the accounts of the old Founders companies -the Continental case exploded again...