Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wells' novels have the unsatisfactory quality of being on the very outer periphery of the near-great. They are never whole-hearted, but strike an irritating intellectual pose. They usually discuss ragged problems, with only that touch of originality which makes for interest. They are surprisingly readable, and they are read. Perhaps the artist has always overtaxed himself, and has thus fallen short of his capabilities: perhaps the tremendous gush with which he has flooded the presses is but the indication of the artisan, Wells...
...Ambassadorial post at London. Dwight Filley Davis, his Secretary of War, was at Tallahassee. John Garibaldi Sargent, his Attorney General, was recovering from influenza at his Ludlow, Vt. home. Frank Stearns, his closest personal friend, the man who picked him for President long before the Boston police strike, was so overcome with grief in Boston that he could say nothing for hours...
...Tokyo the Imperial Government called Shanhaikwan a "local incident." As the Japanese troops bivouacked there for the winter their victory had two obvious advantages: 1) If Japan decides to strike at Peiping and Tientsin she holds the Thermopylae through which her Army must pass; 2) if, which is more immediately likely, Japan decides to seize Jehol Province just outside the Great Wall and add it to Manchukuo, her puppet state. Japanese control of Shanhaikwan will block any effective steps which Chinese might try to take to protect Jehol...
...makers of 15?-a-pack cigarets last week did what they had been expected to do for a long time-slashed prices. Acting in concert as they always do, the Big Four -American Tobacco (Lucky Strike), Reynolds Tobacco (Camel), Liggett & Myers (Chesterfield), Lorillard (Old Gold)-dropped the wholesale price from $6.85 a thousand to $6. Though no one ever knows what the Big Four will do, few people expected the cut to be so deep, for a year and a half ago the price had been upped, presumably because of Cellophane wrappings, from $6.40 a thousand...
...Four's move was a counterattack to stop the forward march of the Little Four-Brown & Williamson, Axton-Fisher, Larus & Brother, Continental Tobacco-makers of non-advertised 10?-a-pack brands. The Big Four used to make 90% of all U. S. cigarets and Lucky Strike's George Washington Hill, Camel's Samuel Clay Williams, Chesterfield's Clinton W. Toms, Old Gold's Benjamin L. Belt thought the future was fine and blue (TIME, Oct. 31). Now the Little Four with their Wings, Paul Jones, Twenty Grand, White Rolls sell one out of every five...