Word: soled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Staaken 15 huge German bombers were lined up as if at attention. Special customs guards had gone to the military field for the sole purpose of inspecting the Lindbergh baggage, of verifying how much money was in the Lindbergh wallet. Due at 5 p. m., the Gipsy-Moth alighted at precisely 5:05. Thereupon the entire German Press began grinding out under huge headlines that "the character of Colonel Lindbergh symbolizes the heroic qualities which Adolf Hitler is seeking to impress on German youth...
...Carey of New York City's Sanitation Department, which operates more vehicles (3,000) than any other municipal department, declared that such temporary safety drives are not "worth a darn." Having tried them without success the Sanitation Department two years ago formed a permanent safety division whose sole job is to decrease accidents by rigorous investigation and constant regulation. Since then, accidents to the department's trucks have steadily declined until last month they reached a new low of .188 per 100 pieces of equipment...
...Workers of America went on strike at RCA Manufacturing Co.'s plant at Camden, N. J. Official demands of this potent industrial union were a closed shop, abolition of RCA's company union, a 20% wage increase. Real objectives were recognition by RCA of the union as sole collective bargaining agency within the plant, the same working conditions accorded employes of the nearby Philco Radio and Television Corp. factory...
Last week the Camden lid blew off to make real news. In its "final statement," RCA demanded that the strike cease, refused to recognize John Lewis' United Workers as the sole bargaining agency even if a Labor Relations Board poll should show it to represent a majority of RCA's plant employes. One afternoon last week a crowd of 3,000. including 1,000 Philco and N. Y. Shipbuilding Corp. sympathizers, went after RCA employes as they filed out of the plant. Bricks, stones and clubs flew freely in a two-hour pitched battle (see cuts). Next...
...Henri de Kerillis accused Air Minister Pierre Cot of having given to Soviet Russia a priceless French secret: a model and blueprints for the 23-mm. machine gun with which France's huge "airfortress" planes are to be armed. This airplane "cannon," screamed Deputy de Kerillis, is the sole superiority France has over its potential enemies in the air. Scrappy, bespectacled Air Minister Cot replied that nations allied in pacts of mutual assistance, as are France and Russia, ought to exchange information, that anyway the "cannon" was the property of a Swiss engineer named Birckigt who had the right...