Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...royal bargemen. George VI last week used a 300-h.p. green motor launch (later to serve as Admiral's barge for Admiral Sir Edward Evans, commander-in-chief at The Nore), his escort consisting of four of Britain's new secret torpedo motor boats. Such a vast wash did they create that dozens of spectators near Cleopatra's Needle on the Embankment were swept from their feet, nearly drowned...
Last month Northwest Airlines got permission from the Post Office to fly 60 mi. south of its run between Seattle and Spokane so it could serve Yakima, Wash., which had no airline at all. The Denver Chamber of Commerce immediately petitioned the Post Office to allow United to do the same for Denver. TWA and others protested violently, but Wyoming Air, the sole system which would be directly hurt, offered no objection because of an agreement with United. Last week, to everyone's surprise, Post Office Solicitor Karl A. Crowley decided in favor of the petition...
...back in your seat and miss very little by closing your eyes. A lot of very good Beethoven will wash around you, interspersed with some less masterful music which will but whet your appetite for more Beethoven. From time to time grown-ups and children will chatter in a very unintelligible language which is probably Russian. If plot or foreign photography interests you, open an eye every now and then to get the continuity, for there are a few more complications to this scenario than most European classical productions boast...
...Wenatchee, Wash., because it "held thousands of skilled apple workers in the Wenatchee Valley up to ridicule and contempt," the Chamber of Commerce petitioned the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America Inc. for elimination from the screen of the term "apple-knocker...
Because the desire for peace is not universal today, Laski asserted, a world conference, led by President Roosevelt, would be useless and only a "heroic gesture." But, concerning the aloofness of the U. S. toward international affairs, he said, "I don't think America should wash its hands of responsibility as an effective impact in world problems...