Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anger and in haste Boss Seipel rushed back to Vienna. Certainly if he recovers his health, if he exerts all his might to prevent the Zollverein he can do so?for a time. But the diplomacy of the two smart Teutons is for the long pull. By blowing up a trial balloon last week so tremendous that it overshadowed Europe, they turned the dream of Austro-German union into something concrete, something Austro-German public opinion can be educated to demand forcibly...
...Jolson) back to the legitimate stage after an absence of five years. The Nora Bayes Theatre is transformed into a huge cafe. Swarms of waiters, chasseurs, patrons, pages, barmen, gigolos and handsome poules de luxe make their entrances through the aisles, and the proprietor, Al Jolson, works hard to pull the production together by circulating through the audience, greeting startled latecomers, insisting that there is "never a dull moment in Al's little Wonder Bar." This might be true if The Wonder Bar were really a night box where one could attend the entertainment and at the same time...
...Prohibition. Their sugar plantations and factories were close to collapse. Last month following a six-month investigation by Chief Herbert Brown of the Bureau of Efficiency, President Hoover transferred the Islands' administration from the Navy to the Interior Department. To set up a new civil government and pull the Virgin Islanders out of their economic hole President Hoover appointed Dr. Paul M. Pearson, onetime elocution professor at Swarthmore College. Last week Governor Pearson and his staff of experts sailed from New York to take up their new job, will barely have time to turn around in office before receiving...
Even to Frenchmen who knew that commercial aviation means a long, long pull. Aeropostale's showing was disappointing. Its planes carried last year only 224,000 mile-tons of freight, one-fifth of capacity. In 1929 its total receipts were but $770,000. Undoubtedly the Govern-ment had hoped for better things...
...Angeles last week Pilot L. H. Atkinson, about to take a plane up for testing, climbed out of the cockpit at the last minute to borrow a parachute. In the air a few minutes later the plane fell into a tailspin from which Pilot Atkinson could not pull out. With his borrowed 'chute, he jumped...