Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Imperial Majesty, Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, ceremoniously hammered a golden spike into a railway tie last week. Later, excited Iranians in Teheran watched the first train to make the trip from Bandar Shahpur, on the inlet Khor Musa of the Persian Gulf, pull in to Iran's inland capital. Thus the Trans-Iranian Railway, most spectacular, most expensive railroad enterprise undertaken since the World War, was pronounced completed. The railroad is the dream come true of a westernizing, wilful ruler who still believes in the 19th-Century notion that railroad-building is a matter of national prestige...
When he tried to help an angler pull in a 400-lb. tuna while boating off Elsinore, Prince Axel of Denmark, who once rescued a Swedish cinemactress from drowning, was dragged into the water. Into his boat the angler safely pulled both fish and Prince...
...meeting enthusiastically passed a resolution asking John Llewellyn Lewis to appoint a receiver of their riven union with full powers to patch it up-presumably by kicking out President Martin. Cried Wyndham Mortimer, chief spokesman for the rump officials: "We need a C. I. 0. director with power to pull us out. We are a very sick union...
...Cleveland for Ohio locals-in order to make union men choose which side they would meet with. But having announced his intention to keep his Detroit meeting going until midnight if necessary to put deserters on the spot, he adjourned it early, mournfully watched a line of cars pull out for Toledo. The Toledo meeting claimed 702 delegates from 70 locals, representing more than half U. A. W.'s 400,000 membership. (The Mortimer faction last week told C. I. O. Boss Lewis that its dues collections were 30% of U. A. WVs peak.) An anti-Martinite...
While the U. S. was thus expecting, if not enjoying, a continued revival of business, European businessmen were wondering how long their duress would continue. Great question in Europe last winter was whether the U. S. would pull Europe into the economic morass (TIME, Feb. 28). It did. Question now is whether the U. S. will pull Europe out again...