Word: skeletoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...International Style thinks of building in terms of space enclosed as opposed to mass. Walls no longer support the house; they are curtains enclosing its skeleton...
...decided to use as far as possible the distributing and statistical services of the Federal Reserve system and the skeleton organization of War Finance Corp. It was also decided to adopt a clam-like policy in dealing with the Press. The board's attitude of secrecy, however, did not prevent President William Wallace Atterbury of Pennsylvania R. R. from announcing that his road would apply for a loan of "$5.000,000 a month for an indefinite period" to carry on the electrification of its New York-Washington line. Rail-road Credit Corp. intimated that it might...
...recapture Hawaii from a hypothetical enemy. As the zero hour approached for Admiral Richard Henry Leigh's Blue force to cross a deadline and commence hostilities, the defensive Blacks, surmising that the attack's spearhead would aim at Honolulu's Pearl Harbor naval base, sent skeleton columns of soldiers, sailors and marines to patrol the coast of Oahu and guard against a surprise landing. Actually mobilized to defend Hawaii were 20,000 men, 17 sub marines, four light mine layers, two mine sweepers and 45 aircraft under Major General Briant Harris Wells, commander of the Army...
...Leviathan, arriving at Manhattan, completed her first round trip to Europe under Roosevelt-Dollar-Dawson control (TIME, Nov. 2). A West Indian cruise she was scheduled to make was cancelled and she herself was ordered laid up "indefinitely" at a Hoboken pier. Of her 800 men, all but a skeleton crew were thrown out of work. International Mercantile Marine Co., half-owner of U. S. Lines, promised to try to place them on its other ships. Surprised by the company's action. Representative Ewin Lamar Davis, chair-man of the House Merchant Marine Committee, talked of an investigation of ocean...
...motorboat, harpooned Ethelbert, then lost him. Others grappled him up, put him on display. Indignant Portland police confiscated Ethelbert's remains, arrested the Lessards. An indignant Portland judge fined them $200 each for "killing a fish" with weapons other than hook & line. Last week Ethelbert was only a skeleton and a memory, but the Lessards were still trying to escape payment of their $400 fines. With one stroke Circuit Judge Hall S. Lusk, to whom they appealed, erased the blot from Ethelbert's escutcheon, wiped out the Lessard fines. Like almost everybody else, he knew, and explained...