Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LIFE, April 17: "Albania's oil wells have been developed nearly to the point of satisfying Italy's oil requirements...
Meantime, baffled John Public continued to burn 1,000,000 tons of coal a day. At Norfolk, whence much coal is transshipped by water to eastern cities, bunkers were nearly empty. Manhattan subways reduced service to the point where trains at peak hours carried four instead of the usual three passengers per seat. When all but a few A. F. of L. and non-union mines shut down last week, less than a month's supply for the U. S. remained aboveground, and much of that was hoarded by big users. Madam Secretary squeaked in Washington...
...fame was his denunciation of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh as a "paid liar" for alleged slurs on Soviet aviation. Speaking German and French, he will still be able to talk turkey with the British-French "Peace Front." If these talks fail (as they were on the point of doing last week) he can turn to negotiations with the Dictators' front...
...work 21 years ago, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (founded by Act of Congress in 1915) has turned out many a valuable contribution to aircraft and engine design. Its studious scientists, working in a grotesque collection of wind tunnels and other research machinery at Langley Field, Va., can point to NACA discoveries (cowlings, wing designs, etc.) on every airplane flying today...
...Conference secretary was a Southerner-Rev. Dr. Lud H. Estes of Memphis. Booming out a point of law, Dr. Estes forgot himself, said: "As the old nigger says, 'I don't want to seem to be persnickety, but. . . .' " He stopped short. Two Negro delegates-one of them Florida Educator Mary McLeod Bethune-started for the platform to demand an explanation. Blushing, Dr. Estes seized a microphone, said: "Coming from the Deep South as I do, perhaps I am prone to use such words without realizing that they may give affront. I will say to the Conference: when...