Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some 100 miles of experimental clay and gravel roads treated with rock salt (ice-cream freezer kind) have been laid. After several months' use by fairly heavy traffic the salted roads are standing up admirably, Arthur D. Little, Inc.'s Industrial Bulletin reported last week, and one stretch near Ithaca, N. Y. came through a pounding by nine inches of rain without visible effect. Developed by Cloyd Delson Looker, research director of International Salt Co., and Heinrich Ries, Cornell University geologist, the treatment makes clay hard like concrete, retards evaporation so that the surface remains moist and firm...
Beetling behind a big red fan of beard, Denmark's huge Social Democratic Premier Thorvald A. M. Stauning has sailed his little country handsomely, since the spring of 1929, through fair weather & foul. Most ticklish stretch came after Britain, to whom Danish farmers sell most of their eggs and butter, cheapened the pound (TIME, Sept. 28, 1931). Premier Stauning sensibly cheapened Denmark's krone proportionately in step with the pound. Results were so good that thrifty Danish exporters of dairy products began to think results would be better if the krone were devalued not merely down...
Last week, 13 months before he was to defend his Presidential title against an as yet unnamed Republican challenger, Franklin Delano Roosevelt jogged out of Washington for a 3,000-mile stretch of political roadwork. The odds, while narrowing, still favored him. But just as all champions must go barnstorming to keep their names before the fans. Champion Roosevelt felt it was not too early for him. to go through his paces for the benefit of some 50,000,000 voters who will turn thumbs up or down on him in 1936. Simultaneously he could gauge the fitness and morale...
...stretch of imagination could the 118,000 stockholders in Anaconda Copper Mining Co. be called "satisfied." They have received no dividends for four years. In that respect they are not alone among U. S. investors, and their grudge has another basis. A number of them still resent the price they paid for Anaconda in 1929 when the stock touched a high of $174 per share. Three years later it could have been bought for $3. Moreover, many stockholders feel they were high-pressured into buying Anaconda by no less a supersalesman than Charles Edwin Mitchell. The onetime National City Bank...
...their X, Y, Z home stretch, the Academy's 40 Immortals also adopted "Yacht," the last of a long line of English sporting terms which Frenchmen have been twisting on their tongues since they took up le sport. At one ponderous session the academicians considered "Yankee," pronounced it with aversion, decided officially that "Yankee" is a word having no rightful place in French...