Word: waits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serious accidents which were not brought on by Japanese guns. Because traditional modes of transportation in free China-oxcart, ass, camel, over miserable roads-are unbearably slow, and because trucks so often break down in Chinese hands, these lines are so heavily booked that some passengers have to wait a month for a seat. The planes are always filled to maximum capacity. Eurasia flies Junkers, C. N. A. C. flies Douglases, and both use German Telefunken wireless compasses and direction-finders-among the best in the world...
...went aboard and asked why the Germans had disobeyed their decision. "Orders from my Government," said the prize chief. Norway at once interned the prize crew, released City of Flint to her captain to go wherever he had a mind (see p. 16). He headed for neutral Bergen to wait for the political nor'easter to wane. Germany, in a great show of fury, protested to Norway. Norway coolly rejected the protest, with a review of the case which made it look very much as though Germany, wanting neither to risk the North Sea crossing nor to lose face...
...deplorable conditions Scully said he found in his new Job. Without consulting his superior he began to correct them. Said he: "When there is a fire I don't wait to get permission to put it out." Inmates of a Los Angeles school for the blind were receiving harsh treatment, said he, from civil service employes. He questioned whether the death of a young inmate of Whittier State School near Los Angeles was suicide, as reported; said inmates were being grossly mistreated and cruelly punished. Last fortnight Dr. Rosanoff fired Frank Scully, later charged that affairs in Scully...
When Lady Baldwin of Bewdley recently visited Manhattan with her husband, she wanted to see the General Motors Futurama exhibit at New York's World's Fair, but did not want to wait in line. She asked her husband, Earl Baldwin (Stanley Baldwin), to fix it up. He telephoned the British Consulate; the Consulate called the British Embassy in Washington; the Embassy, faced by a new problem in protocol, cabled the Foreign...
Bill Bingham did discontinue the payment of athletes for waiting on tables at the Varsity Club, but the present hours and return are hardly as grim as Egan portrays. During the season needy members of athletic squads wait on the training tables for one hour at lunch and dinner six days a week. In return for 12 hours of work (two hours per day), the waiters are given all their meals including breakfast free, gratis etc., or the equivalent of $10 worth of House food...