Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since if Japan would have to "alter her plans" to build 46,000-ton ships she was obviously building none at present, this seemed a clever way of slipping the requested information out the back door. However, it did not seem to strike Secretary Hull that way. Taking the Japanese Government's curt note as an invitation to Britain, France and the U. S. to scrap their 35,000-ton limitation, the Secretary said: "The Government . . . regrets any development which has the effect of encouraging rather than discouraging races in armament building...
...know I can lick 'em," cried DePinto as he took his place, his arms laden with the spheres that were to tell the tale of victory or defeat for Harvard. He sent his first ball spinning down the alley and it scattered the candle pins for a perfect strike. He took another shot, and again all the pins were felled, and so it went until his total had sky-rocketed to 149, leaving the Crimson sphere-slingers with their 1686 aggregate score...
Officer George DePinto has gathered a five-man team which has been in strict training for several days. The patrolmen's free afternoons find them down at the bowling alleys, rolling out strike after strike as they practice for the Yale meet...
...batch of bonds for Appalachian Electric Power Co.. all for refunding purposes. Before nightfall, however, all had been bought, with prices occasionally going to a premium. The New York Herald Tribune trumpeted: "The distribution was exceptionally sound and it makes a mockery of charges that a capital strike prevails...
Last fall, when 5,000 New York City kosher butchers staged a widely-publicized meat strike, even U. S. bachelors recognized a situation which had irked U. S. housewives all year-meat prices were at a six-year peak (TIME, Oct. 4 & 18). By mid-January the U. S. Department of Agriculture recorded retail meat prices way down from their peaks of September 30-sirloin steak from 48? to 32? a lb., leg of lamb from 29? to 26?, pork chops from 42? to 29?, veal cutlets from 43? to 39?. By last week wholesale cattle prices were...