Word: tools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Actually, with a 4?-per-lb. tariff, the ceiling of copper prices is self-limited at about 12? per Ib. by the threat of foreign competition. Chairman of the Code Authority is an oldtime copperman, President E. Tappan Stannard of Kennecott, who works side by side with a onetime tool manufacturer, Harry O. King, NRA Divisional Administrator. When the copper market developed into a three-price affair-Blue Eagle, non-Blue Eagle, and regular export copper-President Stannard had to slap a ban on non-Blue Eagle copper which he extended for the second time last week. When scrap producers...
...frivolous activities were merely the preparation, the ground work, for what was to come. Just as there must be a period of dry toll for every artist, so these months of drudgery were a flame which was to transform our dress into steel, and weld the metal into a tool, which, though worthless in itself, could act as an instrument through which might be transmitted that most glorious of clarion calls against intolerance, bigotry and injustice, that ringing, heartfelt appeal for liberty, that supreme endeavor of the human mind to pierce the outer encircling darkness,--the Ivy Oration...
...Strictly Dynamite," Jimmy Durante is a radio comedian. It is the same Durante, still "de tool of a beautiful dame," an if you like his unchanging technique you will be thoroughly satisfield with this picture...
...advantages of waiting until Congress adjourns before broadcasting a nationwide exposition of his intentions and purposes suggested that use of his great tool might be temporarily postponed. But last week there was evidence that, consciously or unconsciously, the President was already leading his Administration temporarily toward the Right and disowning the label of radicalism which opponents have attached to his policies...
...tool of the interests," provided Editor Banks with an armed bodyguard and a small army of minute men in the foothills, subject to his call at the signal of open revolution. Banks led a riotous march on the Court House, made a speech from the steps, would have thrown out the county officials bodily if the American Legion had not intervened. Oregon newspapers began referring to the "Mad Dog of Medford," and to the county as "The State of Paranoia." In February 1933 Editor Robert Waldo Ruhl of the Mail Tribune rose up in righteous anger against Editor Banks...