Word: spanner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that second-quarter earnings ($1,309,761) were about $650,000 more than the first quarter's-but only because the Corporation decided to cut depreciation charges by $700,000. Three days later Mr. Stettinius had no happier prospects when Montana's Senator Burt Wheeler threw a spanner into steel and other durable goods industries by defeating Mr. Roosevelt's rail equipment plans...
...pieces as members of the Non-intervention Committee consulted their home governments and received instructions. The Soviet Government threw a monkey wrench by insisting that all volunteers must have withdrawn from Spain before Moscow will agree to granting belligerent rights to Franco. The Italian Government threw an equally deadly spanner, although loudly blaming Moscow for having already caused the wreck, by declaring that Italy could not promise to be bound by findings of the Committee as to the number of volunteers on each side in Spain and consequently as to the proportion in which they should withdraw. Leftist sympathizers were...
...political ups & downs. One of his "downs" was to be expelled by Chancellor Schuschnigg last May from the Austrian Government in which he had been Vice-Chancellor. Last week he was still commander of the Heimwehr, chief private armed force in the country, and able to throw a spanner or two into governmental machinery. Provincial leaders of the Heimwehr, meeting to discuss their autumn program, had to decide whether to remain loyal to Starhemberg or transfer their allegiance to Starhemberg's former right hand man, Major Emil Fey. They could not lightly forget that Starhemberg had fed & clothed...
Author Ford Madox Ford, an almost U. S.-acclimatized Britisher, still makes little leaps in the dark when he comes to some Americanisms. He writes of a woman getting drunk as "canning herself"; makes Hero Smith figure out that the foreign word "valise" means "grip"; but neglects to translate "spanner" into monkey wrench...