Word: whooping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken those that are key industries, those where activity may be stimulated and employment given on a larger scale. We have secured the consumer against exploitation, and the result will do much to meet the emergent conditions for which this Parliament was called together." War Whoop. Like an Indian war whoop rose Liberal King's instant challenge to Conservative Bennett's statement. Scarcely had the Prime Minister sat down when the ex-Prime Minister moved and read a scathing amendment: "This House regrets that the Government has seen fit at a special session called to deal only with...
Others complained that the new system released girl operators, added to unemployment. With a whoop the Senate unanimously adopted the Glass resolution to oust the dialers and replace them with the old "number-please" instruments...
...Packard Co.'s mightiest, a 24-cylinder X-type engine, producing 1,250 h. p. No airplane engine was known to be more powerful. The Rolls-Royce engine was of the W-type, better known as Broad Arrow, a conventional British design used in the Napier engine to whoop Sir Henry O'Neil de Hane Segrave in his queer record-breaking motorcar over the sands at Daytona Beach at 231 m. p. h. last year...