Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republic is in danger!" When eight months ago (TIME, June 12) the then Premier Daladier first raised that cry in the Senate it seemed no more than a useful political trick to whip Senators into line. Last week every Frenchman realized that the Republic was in danger, and to pull it out Edouard Daladier was made Premier of France again...
When Gustavus Franklin Swift, fifth son and namesake of the Cape Cod meat peddler who founded the House of Swift, became president in 1931, his company had just reported annual sales of $900,000,000. As Depression began to pull down meat prices, hard-working Gus Swift, whose wife bitterly complains that he never has time for play, kept on buying hogs, sheep, cattle. Though his dollar volume dwindled, he processed almost as much meat as he ever had before. ''It was our job to see that the daily cash market . . . was kept open...
...ever attempted-2,400 mi. The Navy did not think of it as a remarkable flight but a routine transfer of equipment and personnel by air. On San Francisco Bay weather was almost too good. Loaded seaplanes need a brisk headwind or a slightly choppy sea to help them pull up from the water. The ships of 10-F huge Consolidated sesqui-planes with 100-ft. wingspread and twin Wright Cyclone engines, were each loaded to the gunwales. After a half hour's fruitless taxiing over glassy water Plane No. 4 hoisted herself into the sky. Thirty minutes later...
...Dear Henry. . . . When you first asked me to come down to Washington ... I told you that I could do so only on a temporary basis; that one of my then senior partners, Mr. Henry Seligman, was not in good health. . . . Needless to say, I regret very much having to pull out. . . . I have had a grand time working with you and it has been a privilege which I shall not forget. ... As you know, when Mr. Seligman died two weeks ago I told you that I must finish up my work here . . . and go back to New York...
...production jumped from 40 to over 500 cars a day. When Durant made his comeback into General Motors, Chrysler became vice president in charge of GM operations. But Durant and Chrysler quarreled. In 1920 Willys- Overland which had just gone on the post-War rocks hired Chrysler to pull it off. Then Maxwell Motor came to him with another salvage job. Maxwell had only 50 active dealers, had 26,000 unsold cars piling up demurrage in freight yards all across the country, had $20,000,000 in debts. By the time Chrysler had rehabilitated Maxwell, it was his company...