Word: squeaked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With hundreds of stations all on the same frequency, radio sets from one end of the country to the other began to squeak & squawk with interference. Secretary Herbert Hoover called a conference of all radio interests, and a definite broadcasting band was set aside. This solution was only temporary. Stations grew steadily in number and power until all wave lengths were occupied. The Department of Commerce thereupon declined to issue any more licenses. A 1926 Federal court decision threw the whole situation into chaos again by ruling that the law did not authorize Secretary Hoover to make individual wave length...
This, plus a reviving stockmarket and occasional other loans from friends, tided Richard Whitney over until 1933. About that time, having taken fliers in a lot of such pip-squeak ventures as Florida fertilizer plants, Dick Whitney took the fatal flier of his life: He got into Distilled Liquors Corp. which bought a plant for making applejack. The public eagerly took the stock he offered, but did not take to the applejack. Needing funds to promote the company, Dick Whitney got large loans against his Distilled Liquors stock, which once sold as high as $45 a share. When the price...
...first few weeks Hugo Black sat on the U. S. Supreme Court bench, Washington gossip reported Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes at a high pitch of exasperation because nervous Justice Black's rocking chair punctuated hearings with a high-pitched squeak, squeak. This week, when the Court convened after a two-week recess, Hugo Black's chair no longer squeaked and it speedily became apparent that harmony had been restored. For Chief Justice Hughes and a majority of his fellows, including Hugo Black, saw eye-to-eye on the year's most important case-the test...
...superficial cinema roles that have enveloped her-how sound an actress Alice Brady is, her warming, plainspoken, broguish portrayal of the Widow O'Leary was a revelation. By long odds the most convincing performer in In Old Chicago, she makes handsome Tyrone Power seem something of a pip-squeak as Chicago's boss, reduces the whole caboodle of headlined stars to the ranks of supporting players...
...Providence, R. I. Taxi Driver Morris Widergren, driven to distraction by a body-squeak in his car, inspected it thoroughly, found...