Word: ran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oxford, England, nervous, bull-necked Viscount Nuffield, 60, Great Britain's No. 1 motor tycoon and Oxford University's No. 1 donor, was working overtime, when police arrested a man who they charged had come to his office to kidnap him. When Nuffield heard what happened, he ran to tell someone the news, burst in on some employes practicing for a band concert, cried: "Well, boys, what do you think of it? Two men have just tried to kidnap...
...Arnold's predecessor in charge of trust-busting was Robert Jackson who, last December, ran up against a haymaker from Federal Judge Ferdinand Geiger in Milwaukee. For a year Mr. Jackson's department had been investigating the connection between the Big Three motor-makers (Ford, General Motors, Chrysler) and the Big Four auto-financing companies (General Motors Acceptance Corp., Commercial Credit, Universal Credit Corp.. Commercial Investment Trust). The Assistant Attorney General was trying to get criminal indictments against them for violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. But Judge Geiger discharged the grand jury when he discovered that...
...last week Guntersville had TVA power. The city's lines ran down one side of the streets, Alabama Power's down the other. It was the first time TVA had gone into such direct competition with a private utility. Furthermore, since Alabama Power is a subsidiary of $1,160,000,000 Commonwealth & Southern Corp., it was direct competition between TVA and its major foe in the utilities v. Government...
Balls rained through the infield. Third baseman Grondahl played like a croquet wicket. Shortstop Johns ran back and forth like the Grand Central shuttle. First baseman Lupien alternately lay on his stomach and ran to the fence behind him in effort to corral a throw for the final...
Alex Northrop '38 Crimson captain, was upset as the favorite in the mile run by Howie Borck of Manhattan who ran the distance in 4:13.9. At the 660 mark Northrop pulled out of the thirteenth place into first and went out ahead of Peter Bradley of Princeton and Borck. Borck stepped up his pace, however and went after Northrop to pass him and win by 20 yards...