Word: throatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tires now last at least 20,000 mi. instead of the 8,000 mi. they were good for 15 years ago, but more cars and more mileage per car per year have complemented technological improvements. Current competition is relatively peaceful after years of cut-throat warring among the Big Four. Last week, even before the International Rubber Regulation Committee met in London, U. S. tiremen unanimously and harmoniously raised prices 6%, the fourth boost in nine months...
...duty to submit our own judgment to the rulings of the Supreme Court on the Constitution." Immediate effect of the opinion in Manhattan was to end a cat-&-dog price fight in the retail liquor business. Publishers and cosmetic makers at last foresaw the end of cut-throat price competition in the nation's No. 1 buying State.* Second day after the Albany flip-flop mammoth Macy's which traditionally "will not be undersold," announced what the world's biggest department store was going to do about it. Full-page newspaper advertisements screamed: "The Consumer will...
...skating in tournaments to skate in the cinema and last week's winner, heir to Miss Henie's title, was an English girl who may hold it just as long. She was strong-legged Cecilia Colledge, 16-year-old daughter of Dr. Lionel Colledge, socialite London ear & throat specialist. Day after she won the title, with 2,528.9 points to 2,488.1 for her closet rival, England's Megan Taylor, Champion Colledge sailed...
...sons hurried back to Uniontown, got the case reopened. After an autopsy the coroner made some surprising discoveries. His first examination, said he, had been so hurried that he had failed to notice eleven fractured ribs, a fractured jaw, fractured nose, hemorrhage of the brain, hemorrhage of the throat and internal hemorrhages. After a three-day investigation Pennsylvania's Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti concluded that Frank Monaghan had been "barbarously and brutally beaten to death in an effort to obtain a confession from...
...Fascism" at Columbia's Teachers' College melted with yesterday's announcement that Professor Kilpatrick will give the Macy Lectures in 1938 and 1939. For a while the enforcing of the retirment law looked like a gag upon the liberal and controversial teacher. He does not think that his throat is being cut, nonetheless, and the report of his new position verifies the friendly words of Dean Russell before the New Orleans Convention...