Word: priding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marines, and the combined air forces of all three have been subjects of Hollywood endeavor, and nauseam. This is, so far as this reviewer knows, the first time anyone's gotten the licks in on the Coast Guard. And, guess what, Victor McLaglen is the swaggering hard-drinking pride of the force...
...aggressive tactics of the C.I.O. agitators swarming in the lumber, pulp and mining districts of Ontario that anger the people and Premier Hepburn, who on his record might favor peaceful unionization. The vehemence of the Canadian opposition is intensified by another factor which the C.I.O. failed to appreciate-national pride. However hostile Ontario is to unionization as such, the introduction of American agitators could not have failed to increase the bitterness. The General Staff of the United Automobile Workers issuing orders for the strike in the manner of a Caesar addressing a colony and Generalissimo Homer Martin flying across...
...girl not much bigger than the size of my bag came up, strapped the luggage on her back and was off three flights of stairs to my room. When I offered to help she was hurt. This is her job, she explained; and she does it with as much pride as I must do whatever I'm doing. So I gave her five francs and she kissed my hand...
...appeal to the public, the Market Street Railway Co. was explaining why it had just asked the State Railway Commission for permission to jack its fare from 5? to 7?. By noon all San Francisco was jabbering, for cable cars are not the city's only unique transit pride. San Francisco is also one of the last stands of the 5? street car fare and presents the even more unusual picture of two privately-owned street car companies competing with a municipal system...
...President Jesse Jay Ricks last week wrote to 55,705 stockholders: "The quantity of oxygen sold in 1936 exceeded that of any previous year. . . . More motorists bought 'Eveready Prestone' antifreeze. . . . Alloy sales to the steel industry exceeded in volume those of any previous year." Also noted with pride by President Ricks was that $20,000,000 worth of new plant construction in 1936 had been financed out of current assets. Up 68% was installment buying which accounts for one-fifth of Sears' business...