Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terminated by a surprise truce on Sept. 16, had been climaxed by a "disastrous, bitter battle." Soviet forces both numerically and mechanically superior to the Japanese had engaged them on the barren Holumbar Plain, devoid of cover of any kind, and whipped them. Admitted casualties: 18,000 killed, wounded, sick...
...little West Kansas town where he was raised, son of a crack Union Pacific railroad engineer, Walter Chrysler had done something more than pull himself up by his bootstraps. Like most other successful U. S. businessmen he had picked his subordinates with unerring eye. And while he was sick and out of the game, no Chrysler stockholder suffered...
Coal. Typical of industries doing so well that they were selling on a 24-hour basis, with no prices guaranteed for longer, is sick old King Coal. Exports (mostly to neutrals' deprived of coal supplies from belligerents) are competing with forward buying by worried U. S. fuel users. Hampton Roads (Va.), which has not been a big coal port for years, took foal from Pocahontas mines at the rate of 433,066 tons a week (current Pocahontas weekly production: 6-to-700,000 tons a week). Hampton Roadsters worked days, nights and Sundays loading ship holds and bunkers. Pennsylvania...
...cats' meow: This week Red Norvo announced that he was sick and tired of the cut-throat competition in jazz and the necessity of playing what he considered to be rotten music in order to get a lot of work, and announced that he was from now on going to work only a few nights a week, make records, and that he was going to take postgraduate work at Juillard Institute in New York just for the fun of it! There are too few guys like this who want to play good, relaxed music so much that they will give...
...care of the sick may be continued as a negative attack" he continued, "while the study of the well should be a positive one, and for this reason should yield results that may point the way to the solution of many present difficulties...