Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Davies made a final trip, which ended fortnight ago, through the Ukraine and the Black Sea area. To the inhabitants of Caucasian and Crimean ports the sight of the Davies 316-foot yacht Sea Cloud was a never-ending diversion. They thronged the piers to watch the Ambassador step from the yacht's speedy trim launch manned by snappily costumed, briskly saluting seamen...
...Edmund Allen could see, there was only one thing to do. Starting his motors, he ordered the stern line off, and the Clipper started across the bay. She thundered for the open Sound off Duwamish Head, cleared the water once, settled back, rose anew, spindrift spuming from her hull step, wake boiling behind. At 80 miles she skimmed from the waves, into the air. Thirty-eight minutes later Pilot Allen brought her down in Seattle's sheltered Lake Washington. Said he, pleased as Punch: "She's a great ship . . . sweet as a peach...
...only would present-day industry be crippled, but all future trade would be dislocated: a Japan so treated would hesitate ever again to become dependent on American producers. Moreover, there arises that weakest and most despicable of excuses: were we to deny ourselves this trade, other nations would immediately step in and take it over. Weak and despicable it is; but true...
Liberals and Laborites read into Sir Thomas' statement a threat to conscript labor in wartime. Only recently His Majesty's Loyal Opposition forced Prime Minister Chamberlain to stop toying with the scheme of general registration of all citizens, the first step toward nationwide conscription. "As soon as war is declared the generals and the brass hats will be in charge of the whole resources of the country," howled Laborite Aneurin Bevan last week. Two days later, with His Majesty's Loyal Opposition still peppering Sir Thomas, the Prime Minister himself was forced onto the floor...
Last week television took one step forward and two back. In New York City, Manhattan's Bloomingdale Bros. Inc. and Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus, Inc. advertised American Television Corp. receiving sets. Davega City Radio Inc., retail specialists in radios and sporting goods, jumped on the band wagon, making a deal with Allen B. DuMont Laborato^ ries, Inc. for exhibition and sale of DuMont sets. Demonstrations were planned to pick up the NBC experimental evening telecast from the Empire State tower. What often happens to best-laid plans began to happen fast...