Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep up with the open hearths. Steel making at Youngstown, Ohio dropped two points (to 80%) this week because of a shortage of iron. At Buffalo last week Bethlehem Steel blew in its old No. 2 blast furnace. One blast furnace, last relined in 1919, was put in service. Rush orders for refractory brick to reline steel and iron furnaces made Pittsburgh's Harbison-Walker Refractories Co. jump output from 35% to 75 to 80% of capacity and go to work widening its own bottlenecks. Each advance in operations uncovered new weak spots-in soaking pits for semi-finished...
During the final examination rush last year, when it was learned that Spencer and three other assistant professors in the department had been given "concluding appointments," nearly 200 undergraduate English concentrators petitioned the University administration for a public explanation...
This week people who found the Whitney Museum's selection of 20th-century painting already turning tamely classic could rush off to the Associated American Artists' businesslike galleries, where to most of the 58 members of An American Group, Inc. classic was a fighting word. Their exhibition of paintings, sculpture and wood carvings was as up-to-the-minute as an air raid, often as violent and savage...
Many a grocer sold himself out of sugar, first on the hoarders' lists, before the buying rush had got well under way, then found that his wholesaler was unable to deliver more until refineries produced it. Others limited customers to small orders and a few refused to sell any unless it went along with a big food order. From every big city between New York and San Francisco went up the cry, "Stop the profiteers!" Said one Washington (D. C.) wholesaler, "The people are behaving like a bunch of damned fools...
...Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace. He knew that no pipsqueak hoarding could clean out the much greater involuntary hoards of farm commodities which he has long tried to dispose of. At week's end, after columnists and editorial writers had failed to shout down the buying rush, he slouched up to the microphone and over a nationwide network called a halt: "Since last Monday," he said, "housewives have been conducting runs on grocery stores in the same manner as depositors used to conduct runs on banks...