Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...levels of the winter of 1929-30 for the first time. Lumber production was at the highest volume since last August. Steel operations, now 47% of capacity, were expected to approach 55% in April. The burlap trade predicted the first active spring since 1928. It was estimated that the pick-up in automobile production had bettered the status of 10,000,000 workers in 20 major industries...
Well into the stormy afternoon three flying officers-George F. McDermott, James H. Rothrock. William S. Pocock Jr. -took off from Floyd Bennett Field, N.Y. for Langley Field, Va. to pick up mail planes. Their amphibian was not in the air ten minutes before it became unmanageable in the stiff wind. They alighted in a heavy sea off Rockaway Point. When a Coast Guard and a Navy destroyer steamed up, the amphibian had drifted off into the dusk. The Navy boat finally picked up the flyers five miles away. Lieut. McDermott had been washed overboard. His exhausted companions were hospitalized...
...listened to the generals," he once said to Marshal Joffre, ''and it seemed to me a great responsibility to decide between their different plans, so I would just pick out the one that made the most sense...
Thus the Superintendents of Schools in Austria last week attempted to pick up the pieces and carry on ordinary life. In Vienna, too, children put on their sweaters to go skating in the Stadt Park. Cafés and cinemas could stay open. Police cleared the barbed wire barricades from the streets and out in the suburbs householders went back to their shell torn apartment houses. More than 1,000 men, women and children lay dead. The Nazis might strike on the morrow. Austria might have only a few weeks more of independence. A new world war might be brewing...
...eyed, square-faced, husky, a deliberate, disciplined worker, a restrained speaker. Though Biographer Mathews attempts to discount it, Dr. Mott is not famed for wit or humor. His great power is his ability to make his facts march into battle and win, to whip up men to enthusiasm, to pick able associates and subordinates. Biographer Mathews estimates Dr. Mott has raised $300,000,000 for his causes. Though given to car and seasickness, he has traveled 1,700,000 mi., the equivalent of 68 times around the world. Woodrow Wilson wanted Dr. Mott to be his Minister to China. Princeton...