Word: roost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four small northern Alabama communities, the constitutionality of the project was promptly attacked by Commonwealth & Southern's subsidiary Alabama Power Co. A similar action was brought by Duke Power Co. against Greenwood County, S. C., which obtained a PWA loan and grant for construction of the Buzzard Roost hydro-electric project on the Saluda River. Both companies charged that PWA Administrator Harold L. Ickes was in effect using his program as a "club" to drive down private rates. Denied injunctions, company attorneys brought both cases to the Supreme Court...
...village of Big Heartbreak, Crevecoeur-le-Grand, about 50 miles from Paris, nervous chickens went to roost, hysterical cows were herded into their barns, and the town's leading citizens put away their shotguns last week after such a wedding as the village will not soon forget. Josephine Baker got married and became a French citizen at the same time...
...terrific title: President of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes of the American Federation of Labor. In Hollywood's studios 12,000 workmen are members of unions that have sworn allegiance to I.A.T.S.E.; in the projection booths of the nation's theatres, I.A.T.S.E. rules the roost. Should Tsar Browne and his lieutenant, William Bioff, call their men out on strike, practically the entire business of making and showing motion pictures could be brought to a jolting halt...
...connect the city overland northeast with Texarkana and the T. & P. main line. Annoyed when the Jeffersonians would not talk his kind of turkey, the black-whiskered railroad baron clapped on his plug hat and walked out croaking a curse on the whole pack of them: "Bats will roost in your belfries, trees thrust branches through mouldering buildings, grass grow in your streets!" Jay Gould put through his branch line after all, but with it, his unpleasant prophecy started to come true. The railroad made Jefferson's tributary back country independent of the port. That same year (1873) Government...
...hysterical money-worshippers. The story is that of Papa Kadan, wholesaler in ladies' dresses, who is financially pressed to the verge of frenzy in marrying off his preening elder daughter Clarisse to a well-heeled lawyer. When Clarisse (Jeanne Greene) has impoverished the attorney, she comes home to roost, appropriates her sister Delia's college tuition money for remodeling a fur coat, tries to get Delia's boy friend David too. David conveniently writes a novel, gets $25,000 for the movie rights, spurns Clarisse, marries Delia. Papa Kadan is further gratified when his stupid son Bert...