Word: pile
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Significance. Every Russian food shortage is produced by the same cause: a failure of sufficient goods to reach the peasantry in time to stimulate them to grow more food than will suffice their own needs. Lazy and shrewd, the Russian peasant will not pile up a food surplus which the Government may seize from him by force...
...scrap yards to be cut or broken up, carefully sorted. Giant shears leisurely chomp a steel freight car into bits. Oxyacetylene torches slice up rail's, girders, beams. "Skull-crackers" shatter cumbersome castings. Twisted sheets and waste are bundled by hydraulic presses. Great electric magnets on overhead cranes pile the fragments into heaps or load them in gondola cars for the blast furnaces...
Meanwhile applications for advances on self-liquidating public projects began to pile up at the R. F. C. door. The Port of New York Authority wanted financial help to start a second vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River at a cost of $75,000,000. For joint fee of $5,000 Los Angeles hired Joseph Scott. Hoover nominator at Chicago, and William Gibbs McAdoo, Roosevelt stampeder at Chicago, to wangle a $32.000,000 loan with which to build a power transmission line from Hoover Dam. A Miami citizen sought $12,000,000 to build a highway bridge from the mainland...
...father. General Hans H. K. von Gronau, Commander of the 41st Reserve Corps at the Battle of the Marne. Under the drudgery of farming he found himself wanting to get into the air again. He hired a manager for the farm, a plane for himself, began to pile up hours. After operating a small school of his own, he got himself appointed director of the government-subsidized Fliegerschule at Warnemeunde, on the Baltic, sunk his capital into it, won such fame for it that pilots of other European countries came for advanced training on seaplanes and flying boats...
...first came in 1887, Queen Victoria's Jubilee Year. That date he remembers less because of public celebrations than because of The Street's ancient crossing sweeper who one day startled the neighborhood by suddenly shouting, "God save our gracious Queen," and forthwith standing. perched on a pile of gutter sweepings, on his head. He was not the only topsy-turvy thing about The Street. Its houses were all on one side and all their numbers, from 1 to 25, were odd. This gave Mr. Lockett, the grandiose Dickensian organist, opportunity to remark to General Brackenbury, a grand...