Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coal Strike (which precipitated the British General Strike of 1927), its leaders cried, "Thank God for Moscow!" and received through the Bank of England from the Soviet State Bank some $2,000,000. That shower of gold was "Trotskyism." The British General Strike fizzled. Stalin, the practical vowed to stop wasting Russia's money thus and concentrated all energies upon building up his Soviet Union at home...
...Houston wanted to reach a wider public than the Review's top circulation of 50,000 (achieved when the price was reduced to 4?) were put on the presses as pamphlets. At such times, Lady Houston's order was: "Keep on printing until I tell you to stop!" Sometimes "Lucy" forgot to call a halt, so the printers always arbitrarily ended their pamphlet press runs...
...give real scope to interior designers is the Douglas DC-3. Last summer American Airlines began flying the first of these superb new planes in two models-21-passenger day coaches and sleepers with 14 berths plus a compartment (TIME, Sept. 28). This week United Air Lines inaugurated non-stop service between New York and Chicago with DC-3s outfitted along a new design which makes them the most luxurious in the world. Instead of 21 seats arranged in rigid rows, United installed 14 big swivel chairs, much like those in a Pullman, giving passengers more comfort and room...
...assuring justice as far as it can be determined and saving the faces of both sides. Owners and unions alike ought to be haled into court if they cannot work together smoothly, for just as it has police power to coerce disorderly citizens, the public should have machinery to stop the endless and costly bickering of the current strikes...
...policy of keeping costs down as much as is humanly possible. The training of the mind is liberally provided for, but is comparatively futile without a corresponding care for that of the body. In due course farsighted graduates may fill this vital need. In the meantime, however, a stop-gap method must be applied...