Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tried to run away, been put in coventry, acted as coxswain of the crew and finally been offered a job on the Queen Mary that his appreciation of Russell-Cotes's advantages becomes complete. By this time, in addition to the familiar sight of Master Freddie keeping a stiff upper lip without letting it interfere with the clipped precision of his diction, audiences will have been treated to a presumably authentic glimpse of how England cares for its underprivileged youth. Most exciting shot: little Lord Jeff falling from the yardarm of a facsimile mast into...
...frontier patrol were 30,000 Mobile Guards. Then came the official announcement that no longer would France allow munitions from anywhere to go to Spain through its territory. Meantime, the Spanish Rightist Army advanced ten miles down the coast toward Valencia from recently captured Castellon de la Plana. met stiff resistance at Villareal. At week's end the Rightists held 131,000 square miles of Spanish territory. Leftists only 48,000 square miles. Disputed territory covered 16,000 square miles...
...some hope of business improvement: 1) The price of galvanized steel sheet was cut $3 a ton. Steel is one thing that Franklin Roosevelt still considers too costly and he has often remarked that the steel industry will not revive until prices are cut. But steel prices are as stiff as any in the country and this opinion bounced off steelmasters like BB shot off a tank. Last week it seemed that where Franklin Roosevelt had failed to dent their determination, continued bad times might succeed. 2) Building material prices last week hit a new low since 1936. In Franklin...
...rearranging and simplifying bank examinations and investment policies. Arrayed with Mr. Diggs are Messrs. Crowley and Upham. Mr. Eccles is a distinct minority. When the committee sends its report to President Roosevelt Mr. Eccles will probably send a report too. Mr. Roosevelt will then have to decide between stiff bank control and easy money...
...Stiff resistance, followed by orderly retreat, made the slow, steady Rightist drive a costly affair in men and munitions. Thousands more Moors and Riffs landed at Algeciras from Spanish Morocco. In Italy, no secret was made of heavy replacements of airplanes and pilots for the Rightist air force and it was freely predicted that Dictator Benito Mussolini might have to dispatch more "volunteers'' to Spain before the Rightists could win the war. At Burgos, Generalissimo Franco was reported to have ordered more air raids on merchant shipping at Leftist ports...