Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quite apart from the immediate mobilization, the number of workers conscripted throughout Germany for rush work digging trenches, stringing barbed wire and erecting cement pillboxes every 150 yards along the Fatherland's new "Siegfried Line" (which faces part of the French "Maginot Line") rose last week to 300,000. Road contractors in southern Germany were also busy on rush orders to improve the surfacing of roads leading to the Czechoslovak frontier "to withstand more heavy traffic...
...hook snapped off, but one of the fish (a 100-pounder) became so entangled in Angler Roosevelt's wire leader that the President was able to land it. That day also he landed his heaviest catch to date, a 230-lb. shark, which revenged him somewhat on the Cocos shark tribe for stealing many fish off his hook.* To greet the U. S. President at Balboa came Panama's President Juan Demóstenes Arosemena, bearing a gift of rare Panamanian stamps, a complete album of every issue since 1897, in a casket of polished hardwood. They motored...
...Keep away from isolated trees, exposed sheds, wire fences, hilltops and wide open spaces, if possible...
This group was led by three men, Paul Shields, John Hanes and E. A. Pierce. All three represented the big "wire houses" in the Street with large volume of business from all over the U. S., unlike the business of the Old Guard which mostly originated in big cities. All three had lined up against Richard Whitney in his famed 1934 fight to stop the law creating SEC. All three had helped force Dick Whitney out of the presidency to make way for Charles Gay, a middle-of-the-roader with a vague repute for being "New Deal." Soon after...
...rate, believe the plantation Negroes of Jamaica. British officials in Kingston last month had posters put up throughout the island saying that Queen Victoria never did anything of the kind, but the Negroes went on buying barbed wire to put round their little pieces of land. Last week the British colony, faced with the job of explaining that no plantations were going to be divided, were ready for trouble...