Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only as the proprietor of the Chateau de Cande where the Duke and Duchess were married last June and as the inventor of something called the "Bedaux hour."* To U. S. Labor, Efficiency Expert Bedaux is not mysterious at all. Labor regards the Bedaux hour as synonymous with the "stretch-out" and "speed-up," considers Efficiency Expert Bedaux, whose system is used in 1,000 plants throughout the world, one of its bitterest enemies. Arrival of Efficiency Expert Bedaux caused an immediate blast from the labor press which Efficiency Expert Bedaux began by ignoring. Apparently concerned mostly with the fact...
...favorite, shortest odds of the year at a major track. There was an excited roar from 15,000 throats as War Admiral, usually first from start to finish, could not get out in front, trailed a mediocre horse named Masked General all the way to the home stretch. Then Masked General ran out and War Admiral squeezed home a lucky winner, to bring his 1937 earnings to $166,500. Owner Riddle announced he was retiring him for the season...
David Kawananakoa, "Prince Koke" to white Hawaiians, is the grandnephew of the last male member of Hawaii's long line of native kings-fat, pleasure-loving David Kalakaua, who liked to play poker for 48 hours at a stretch, died in 1891. Prince Koke's mother is Princess Kawananakoa, Hawaiian Republican National Committeewoman from 1924 to 1936 who recently entertained Maryland's Senator Millard E. Tydings and his wife when they visited Hawaii on a Congressional junket. Famed in Honolulu as a yachtsman and playboy, Prince Koke's greeting to police at his beach house...
...apparently not seriously shaken. Last week's bookings were reported normal. Meanwhile airlines increased their already enormous precautions to prevent a recurrence of last winter's disasters. Schedules were slowed up, deicers fitted, cruising range extended, U.A.L. quickly raised the instrument flying altitude over the mountainous stretch of the "worst U. S. airplane accident'' from...
...usurers put a million-dollar a week business out of commission. Then, in rapid time, the system of organized vice controlled by 'Lucky' Luciano felt the knife, and after extraditing Luciano from Hot Springs, Arkansas, where that worthy went to hide out, Dewey convicted him for a prison stretch of thirty-five to fifty years. Then the restaurant trade, which had been victimized by a series of fake labor unions and "protective associations" to the tune of millions, was cleared, and likewise the live poultry racket, which the notorious "Tootsie" Herbert controlled was broken up. The trucking racket...