Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caution and just as France and Britain got together and agreed to correlate purchases to keep from bidding against each other, so they have been cautious in other ways. Mindful that this time purchases in the U. S. are for cash, which has to be laid on the barrel-head, they are shopping carefully. For the same reason Britain is buying everything she can in her own financial dominions where she does not have to pay in foreign exchange...
...manufacture the health foods the doctor fed his patients. His little firm, now the Kellogg Company, became the No. 1 U. S. packaged cereal maker, which has factories on three continents and does upwards of $30,000,000 business every year. In all that time gloomy, barrel-tested, bald Will Keith has kept a mighty grip on his firm's affairs. When he appointed executives, he is reputed to have made them give him undated resignations. When he wanted to tell them something, he called them to him, whether he was in his office or at his Gull Lake...
President Seymour's Annual Report contains a section on a tenure program for Yale drawn up by a faculty committee. It appears Yale has adopted the Committee of Eight's Report lock, stock, and barrel. A few names have been changed, but underneath this veneer the same situations actually exist...
...allowed to put in at Haugesund, 60 miles south of Bergen and last port before the jump-off into British-patrolled waters. A doctor from Olaf Tryggvason went aboard, but all he could find by way of sickness was a man who had barked his shin on a barrel. Russia had let City of Flint enter Murmansk on the unverified claim of engine trouble; cocky little Norway, having found no basis for the second claim to asylum, refused the request...
Through rivet holes in an after bulkhead new prisoners were shown neat stacks of barrel-sized mines; adjacent were the powder magazines. What would happen if a mishap or an enemy shell touched that hold was something they all thought about, seldom spoke of. Other anxious moments came as they listened to the ticklish task of minelaying, or as they waited in the blue, corpselike light when buzzers called the crew to battle stations...