Word: segments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture represented 55 solid balls of concrete pyramided above sandbags piled on a segment of sewer pipe. When a 1,200-pound dummy bomb (Germany has some real ones weighing 2,200 pounds) was dropped on this monument, the only thing which had to be replaced was Concrete, Ltd.'s concrete balls. Another picture showed upright tapered steel outhouses onto which a brick wall was toppled without so much as denting them. These shelters were labeled: ARP CONSOL-Suitable Shelter for Key Personnel. Non-key personnel are supposed to be hiding in cellars...
...only had Chillán been destroyed; the full force of the quake had torn up a vast, 450-mile-long segment of the narrow nation. Some 20 towns and villages throughout Chile's richest agricultural and mining regions had been leveled. At Concepión, Chile's third largest city, 70% of the buildings were on the ground. Chillán, hardest hit, looked from the air like a mammoth anthill overturned. Its church spires and jagged masonry protruded through the debris. Its surviving residents scrabbled in the ruins for the dead and injured. In the countryside...
...great segment of U. S. economy-the producers of raw materials whose prosperity varies with the price of commodities-"recovery" was still a will-o'-the-wisp. Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics index of wholesale commodity prices was at a four-year...
Elmer Andrews and his staff issued tentative definitions (TIME, Oct. 31) and freely ladled out the hard-boiled advice: "When in doubt, comply." But the fact was that no one could give a final answer. A sizable segment of U. S. economic life is at the mercy of a law which only the courts can legally interpret...
...sidedness of the Act and the incompetence of the Board which administers it. From the time that the Liberty League persuaded fifty of their most talented legal counsel to declare the Act unconstitutional to the most recent jeremiad of the National Association of Manufacturers, the hostility of an important segment of employers to collective bargaining has remained unabated. And it has resulted in the use of spies, munitions, special company police, bought newspapers and every disreputable device that the ingenuity of law-abiding business could provide. Mr. O'Brian makes no mention of these things...