Word: pots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drink Scotch. Scotch also starts with barley but the ingredients are better, notably its water." As Chairman of the Board of Directors of one of the large Irish Free State distilleries, and one of the Board of Directors of another Irish Free State distillery, who incidentally are the largest Pot Still distillers in the world, I would like to state that there is no unbiased whiskey expert in the world who will agree with the latter statement, and that there is no Irishman in Ireland who will agree with the former. In the first place, it might interest...
...impose a solution (Italy is not strong enough for that) but to make Rome the rallying point of all foes of the League-as-it-is. Let others suggest what the League should become; then, when official suggestions begin to roll in, Italy will add hers to the pot and Il Duce will try to emerge as Chief Cook...
...across the map of Spain little bands of anarchists and syndicalists were declaring general strikes, raising red and black flags, setting fire to convents and churches, taking pot shots at Civil Guards and soldiers. Troops were mobilized through most of Spain. Premier Diego Martinez Barrios declared a "State of Alarm," which he explained was not martial law, but the next thing...
...civil aviation in the New Deal his job was far bigger than that of either of his predecessors. Although his budget was slashed this year from $7,660,000 to $5,172,000, and his own salary cut to $8,000, Gene Vidal had a pot of new gold handy in the form of Public Works Administration money. Never before had civil aeronautics a chance to receive so many millions for subsidy. Not since 1929 had the industry's prospects looked more hopeful...
...small card in a mailbox in Converse Chemical Laboratory reads, "Please send Professor Conant's mail to University Hall." This should quell the anxiety of those who fear President Conant is letting the University go to pot while he sits in his laboratory in mystic contemplation of test-tubes...