Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next to impossible to sell airplanes to England. The license of the Sikorsky to a smart British firm speaks for itself, but hardly in the language of your comment. Even the sum of money mentioned ($500,000) is far out of line. Somewhere someone's slide rule slipped...
...skilled workers were now needed to do the work that one had done before. Result: many a project is stalled, many an unskilled worker is left idle by a shortage of skilled labor. From the U.S.S. Houston last fortnight, Presidential Guest Hopkins abolished the rule requiring 90% of workers on PWA projects to be drawn from relief rolls. In New York City, needing 12,000 skilled workers, WPA officials planned to call in non-relief workmen if the shortage was not quickly supplied by volunteers from home relief...
...Italians as their war boats and trade vessels elbowed each other in the Mediterranean. With the tone of reporting an Italian atrocity, the British steamer Cairo City radioed London papers that her flag-salutes to Italian war boats were not being returned "although there is still a rigid rule of the sea requiring the salute...
Ever since great Marshal Josef Pilsudski's death last spring the Polish Government has been a Dictatorship without a Dictator. Last week the politico-military "Pilsudski Colonels," who rule with the kudos of the late Marshal, prudently decided to make some slight concessions to democratic Polish public opinion. Quietly, Colonel Walery Slawek resigned as Premier, was succeeded by his onetime Minister of Interior, Citizen Marjan Zyndram Koscialkowski. not a "Pilsudski Colonel." In the new Cabinet this week most of the Colonels kept their portfolios. But Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck, who has conducted Polish foreign policy for several years...
...Hungary," was so chagrined by George's good luck that he hastened to rebuke Austria for not having done the same for him, indicated that he is the solution to Europe's peace and hoped that Austria would hurry before it was obliged to summon him to rule "a heap of ruins...