Word: skyhigh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day War Minister Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki stood up before a Parliament which just a few hours before the explosion had been told to shoot the Japanese budget skyhigh, appropriating 4,600,000,000 yen (about $1,242,000,000) for war. Expensive as the accident had been, said General Itagaki, it would "not interfere in any way . . . with the sacred war in China." Neither did the mysterious fire in December which razed an aviation training station at Yonago (cost: 150,000 yen) ; or, later, the explosion and fire which wrecked an Army powder factory at Maebashi...
Says Len Lye himself : "I'll put on a film that will blow the film-world skyhigh...
...lawful enterprise prepared to pay Lloyd's of London the right price can insure itself against almost any emergency. But lately Lloyd's rate on libel insurance has jumped prohibitively skyhigh. For shrewd, dumpy Lord Chief Justice, Baron Hewart, has applied England's oppressive libel laws so sternly that rare has been the libel which could be successfully defended...
Topping Oregon's labor problem is the current slump in the lumber industry. Only strong market is sawdust, used locally as fuel and now skyhigh at $12 a truckload. Another difficulty is the restless defiance which seems to pervade the whole Northwest. When a mob in Baker, Ore. recently ran a Beck organizer out of town with the help of local peace officers, Oregon's Governor Martin expressed public satisfaction. Few weeks ago in a Beck-Bridges dispute over some Seattle warehousemen, "the Tsar of Seattle Labor" threatened to close five warehouses if the Labor Board even held...
...enough for Harvard merely to protest that it knows no stamp and has produced no type. The myth must be blown skyhigh, like the rumor of the iron in raisons or the alleged intimacy between Camels and Mrs. Cabot's throat...