Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biographer) was his failure as a politician. Elected to Parliament two years before the first volume of his history appeared. Gibbon fell in line with Tory policy regarding the American colonies; privately, and especially after reports of the first American victories, his confidence in the Government dropped to zero. In his last term he decided "the country could be ruled by boys for all he cared." He was now free to settle down abroad to complete his history, wait for relatives to die to solve his financial problems, bask in the attention paid him by Europe's greatest authors...
Fearing this application of the anti-trust laws to labor disputes could be easily broadened into a major strikebreaking weapon, Labor proposed to carry the Apex case to the U. S. Supreme Court. Meantime the Apex officials gave the sit-downers 24 hours to evacuate the plant. As the zero hour approached, Philadelphia's Mayor Wilson persuaded the sit-downers to leave peacefully, led them out in person. After one look at the plant. Apex officials rushed back to the Courts claiming that on the last day the sit-downers had wrecked the mill from office to basement...
Hasty Pudding presents "Below zero"--Benchley reviewed as "the bright green oasis in the few deserts of dialogue...
...light. So to New York Steam Consolidated has long lent steam from the boilers in its generating stations. In summer New York Steam returns the compliment. Steam's all-time peak load was Feb. 9, 1934, when the mercury in Manhattan thermometers shriveled to 13° below zero...
...bulky, air-tight suit climbed almost ten miles up into the stratosphere. He was Colonel Mario Pezzi, commander of the military altitude school at Montecarlo, Italy. In his Caproni biplane with its 14-cylinder, 700-h.p. Piaggio engine, he encountered temperature as low as 65.2° below zero Fahrenheit, but got back to earth without trouble and with a new world record...