Word: spasms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when this climax to the three-day aerial spasm finally arrived, vengeful Colonel Turner was sorely disappointed to learn that United Air Lines had forbidden its valuable "Benny" Howard to fly in any of the hazardous pylon races. Still, the Colonel found some consolation in the thought of beating Mister Mulligan, which was entered under the skillful guidance of little Harold Neumann of Moline, Ill., who had already walked off with the rich Greve Trophy in Designer Howard's atom-small White Mike. The Labor Day crowd of 80,000 was overwhelmingly behind the gaudy Turner and the same...
...Hereafter," shouted Priest Coughlin in a climactic spasm of exaltation, "anyone who writes a platform for a Presidential candidate must consult the National Union for Social Justice. You members of the National Union are stronger than any President-stronger than any ten Presidents...
...Quorn was due to meet in Leicestershire's Loughborough last week on Boxing Day when a spasm of horror racked Sir Harold and his subscribers. Word slipped out that a crass and venal Loughborough manufacturer proposed a novel stunt to advertise his pants and shirts. As the Quorn met he would release a fox dressed in shirt and pants...
...President Thomas George Lee of Armour & Co. Mr. Bane's oral ruling came as the final spasm in a year-long nightmare. Mr. Lee, who pulled profits out of Armour last year for the first time since 1930, tried to reorganize the packing company last summer but various stockholder groups blocked him at a rowdy meeting in August. Salaries next became the target for the protective committee's publicity. Months of wrangling over a new board revealed that Frederick Henry Prince, crusty septuagenarian banker of Boston, had become Armour's biggest individual stockholder. Last January another rowdy...
...pretty poor apology for the ogre it was damned for. Most of the business was in the hands of local distillers and nine-tenths of the saloons were controlled by the brewers. The old Distilling Co. slipped steadily until the War. It made $10,000,000 in a final spasm in 1918, changed its name to U. S. Food Products Corp. after Prohibition, finally collapsed...