Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seconds before flames surrounded the wreck something happened which soon made more news than the crash. Three employes of the nearby plant of North American Aviation saw an injured man in the wreck, dragged him out. The Douglas company identified the passenger as "Smithin, a mechanic." But reporters learned at Santa Monica Hospital that the man with a broken leg, wrenched back and battered head was in fact Captain Paul Chemidlin, a French military observer...
Then Franklin Roosevelt, who had received a warning from Harry Bridges, spoke up at press conference. He had learned that France needed U. S. planes. He saw no reason why France shouldn't get the newest types, although practice has been not to permit manufacturers to sell any model of war plane to a foreign country until six months after sale to the U. S. Army has been made. The President reasoned that French orders would set U. S. factories in motion, make them readier to fill domestic orders. Having talked it over with his Cabinet, he had enabled...
...57th birthday (March 22, 1933) Mr. Fechner got a telephone call from Louis Howe suggesting a quick trip to Washington. Tied up with union business and unaware that CCC legislation had been introduced, he put off going for a week. When he did visit the White House, he saw there the original (and largely unchanged) chart for a CCC, based not on conscription but on voluntary enrollment...
When General Juan Yague's troops reached the 600-foot-high hill of Montjuich commanding Barcelona's harbor they saw a white flag flying from the fortress. When General Garcia Valino's soldiers climbed the summit of Tibidabo, on the west, and looked down upon the city gleaming in brilliant sunshine, they saw white sheets, towels and Rebel red & gold bunting flying from windows and housetops...
Well, they all lived with Vag and he didn't pay much attention to any of them, especially during the football season. But Gregory and Phil were stern fellows and Vag was really a little afraid of them. So he saw that they were comfortable and did little favors for them now and then...