Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orgy of baccarat." Itinerant gamblers for miles around, learning that Dashing Jack was at the "shoe," flocked to and swamped Frank Jay Gould's place. They came in morning coats, they came in knickers, some came in trunks, bathing suits, beach robes. One deplorable incident during the rush was the unwitting exclusion of Prince Habib Lotfallah who appeared attired in pyjamas after the management, of necessity, had turned away all patrons in beach costume...
...much disturbed were military air authorities by the rise in resignations. Trained men in commercial aviation make for a potent national military reserve. Also, the Army & Navy know that there will never be a rush from military to civilian life if the U. S. air industry pursues its present policy. After enjoying the social prestige of the service uniform, most flyers will hesitate before changing to a status which commercial operators hope to make comparable-in respectability, responsibility and pay-to that of the bus chauffeur and locomotive engineer...
...engineering brains we will build a great natural resource . . . make new geography . . . start a new era ... conquer the Great American Desert. To bring about this transformation requires a dam higher than any the engineer has hitherto conceived or attempted to build." Secretary Wilbur warned against a great rush of workmen to the barren dam site where their services are not yet needed...
Chief Engineer of Boulder Dam is Raymond F. Walter of the Reclamation Service. Born in Chicago 57 years ago, he was named Arthur Raymond Walter. Aged 5, he migrated with his father, a printer, in a covered wagon to the Leadville, Col., gold rush, drifted from one boom town to the next. As a boy he dropped the Arthur from his name, inserted a meaningless initial F. He learned civil engineering at Colorado Agricultural College (1893), surveyed Cameron Pass over the Great Divide, has done much irrigation work. He entered the U. S. Reclamation Service in 1902, rose...
...believe in decentralization in everything-in government, in business and in art. That is, to my mind, the best solution or prescription for living conditions which we face in this age. It is too much to expect, in the rush and hurried life of today and the preoccupation which is attendant upon that life, that the bulk of the people who live in suburban communities will go home to dress after a busy day in New York and return again in the evening to attend concerts and operas and then rush off to make the last train home...