Word: take
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last weekend Mr. Bridges, newly chastened by the courts (see p. 12), returned to the stalled warehouse negotiations, wrote to employers: "Let's take the starch out of our necks and sit down around the conference table." President James Reed of the Association of Distributors agreed...
...labor and shocked the radio industry five years ago by wangling a contract for his local union with Philadelphia Storage Battery Co. (Philco). Last week up-&-coming Mr. Carey, having soared to high place in C. I. O. as president of its United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers, had to take a setback in the plant where he got his start...
Unnoticed amid frenzied Europe, the League Council this week finally agreed to take the first of many technical steps which would be necessary to invoke "Sanctions" against Japan, no longer a League member. The step: inviting Japan to take a seat at the Council table. Geneva experts said that, if Japan sends a refusal, more drastic steps could then be taken, but that if Japan simply never sends a reply, this would create a puzzling situation which the Council would then attempt to solve. Afraid Czechoslovakia would ask the Council to take the first Sanctions step toward Germany this week...
...difficulty of substratosphere flying is that in the thin upper air a propeller blade has to take bigger or more frequent bites of air to maintain the ship's speed and altitude. By increasing the pitch of propeller blades bigger bites are possible, but wind-tunnel experiments have indicated that any propeller's effectiveness reaches a limit when the speed of its blade tips surpasses the speed of sound (at sea level, 780 m.p.h.; at 20,000 ft., 500 m.p.h.). When propeller tips reach the speed of sound, they find themselves in a sort of dead heat with...
...taste in its mouth. Come Across is a tissue-paper "comedy-drama" offering English ideas of U. S. gangsters in an English version of U. S. slang. The scene is a London hospital where a mobster comes with a bullet in his chest and compels an unwilling surgeon to take it out by first kidnapping the surgeon's little boy. Act I is mostly comedy, which consists of stating a few jokes and then elaborately developing them, like themes in music. Acts II and III are melodrama-absurd, but fairly exciting...