Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whatever has happened in the past four years has been flashy. I blundered my way into a labor dispute and got it settled. I was called a Communist for six weeks and a Nazi for two minutes. I've done no solid job yet from the newspaper point of view. From the other side there's a job to be done-San Francisco needs a kick in the tail. But I hope to do that with the newspaper...
...Brought to Hollywood four years ago, he swashbuckled promisingly in Anthony Adverse but soon ran into an unpredictable snag: he began losing his British accent. Last year Producer Edward Small rescued him from the B's and supporting parts to skate in The Duke of West Point after the death of British Skater Jack Dunn, liked him well enough to entrust him with his crucial part in The Man in the Iron Mask...
...University of Pittsburgh's skyscraper Cathedral of Learning. The record of one bolt passing through the arrester and dissected by the fulchronograph shows that it reached a crest of 21,000 amperes, then fell rapidly (in 100 microseconds) to 1,000 amperes, and from that point more slowly to zero. From start to finish the flash lasted one-sixtieth of a second. Engineer Wagner intends to acquire a complete gallery of different types of bolt, then redesign the arresting equipment on transmission lines in accordance with what he learns...
Probably never had a better singing cast performed it: the Metropolitan Opera's Tenor Charles Kullmann and Soprano Hilda Burke in the leads, Contralto Anna Kaskas as the housekeeper, cadaverous Singer-Actor Richard Hale as broken hearted Jester Jack Point...
...year of violent change for 63-year-old Boss Groesbeck. Its turning point was the Supreme Court's decision against Electric Bond & Share in its test case on the Public Utility Holding Company Act. Groesbeck saw the handwriting on the wall, quit beating his head against it. Promptly, Bond & Share registered with SEC. Holding company service subsidiaries had frequently been charged with bleeding operating companies. So Bond & Share forfeited all income (about $800,000 a year) from its management firm (Ebasco Services, Inc.), which began servicing the system's operating units at cost. Next, Groesbeck pulled...