Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mitch" had also secured priceless advertising for Ontario as a haven to which nervous U. S. capitalists might decide to move their plants. Second, many Ontarians believe that the aim of C. I. O. in their province is not only to organize General Motors but is also directed toward C. I. O.-izing Ontario's rich mines. It was in defense of these, they think, that "Mitch" tried to "git his fist in fust" at Oshawa. Finally, since Canada's Prime Minister Mackenzie King, fearing to antagonize Labor, has frowned upon the strident demands of "Mitch" that...
...years ago the Old Prospector shrewdly agreed to help give "Mitch" a leg toward Ottawa and the Prime Ministry. Mr. Wright was persuaded by his onetime mining broker, rambunctious young Clement George McCullagh, who bought two newspapers and today Canadian journalists call him "an incipient Hearst." Far from rich himself, Mr. McCullagh paid $2,325,000 for the Toronto Mail and Empire. Its 120,000 circulation was the largest of any Canadian morning paper, and he merged it with the Toronto Globe (85,000) which he had bought for just under $900,000. Today another $4,000,000 is being...
...lined up column upon column on the Zeppelin Meadow. Flanked along the sides of the floodlit arena crammed 250,000 spectators. With trumpets blaring, the Fuhrer mounted the platform, stood with chin cutting the atmosphere as three blood-red rivers, crimson party banners carried by brown-massed troops, moved toward him. Flames leaped from cressets atop the corners of the stadium, 250 army searchlights pierced 3.000 feet in the sky to make a gleaming square of light...
Directed by Anatole Litvak with a sort of unflagging belief in third-rate melodrama, Mayerling is helped toward verisimilitude by the accuracy of its baroque Viennese trimmings, and by the excellent representational music of Arthur Honegger. More serious cinemagoers, however, may wish that the story had come a little closer to grips with human fact, if only by cribbing the moral that Playwright Maxwell Anderson set to the tale in his Masque of Kings last winter: that to rule brutalizes. The Lower Depths (Albatros). Maxim Gorki, literary darling of the Russian masses both before and after the revolution, wrote...
...Gray pointed out that monks in certain monasteries used to call up fish at feeding time by ringing a bell, that this has been duplicated in the laboratory: a bell is rung at fixed intervals before the food is presented; after a number of repetitions, the fish begin moving toward the customary feeding point as soon as the bell starts ringing...