Word: jammed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pavilion, N. Y., one of Penguin's, inner gear cases broke. In Troy, Dr. Poulter had to stop to pick up some instruments. While Penguin labored along the hairpin turns and precipitous slopes of the Berkshires, it caused the greatest traffic jam New England had ever honked...
...lights gleaming over the marquee of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art one night last week spelt the name PICASSO. Outside, the traffic jam would have done credit to a prize fight. Inside, 4,000 people crowded for a preview of the most comprehensive show ever assembled of work by the world's most famed living artist...
...down at least $3.85 on the fine they must have some indication that they will get their money's worth in return. That same amount of money could easily take the average spectator to a better football game so why does he persist in getting in a big traffic jam on Larz Anderson bridge...
...while. Heaven forbid that any criticism should be smeared on the original, but it did sound pretty dull. It's too bad that Mr. Todd couldn't bury his conscience deep enough to let Charles Cook, his arranger, swing the whole score instead of just throwing in a jam session here and there...
...October 1938 one attempt was made to break the log jam. Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson got up a National Defense Power Committee on which the New Deal's very power-minded Corcoran-Cohen organization was also represented. Mr. Johnson rounded up the topflight utility bosses (one of whom, white-mustached, aristocratic Hobart Porter of American Water Works, once used him as a Washington lawyer), got them to pledge to invest up to $1,000,000,000 a year on war emergency plant in 1939 and 1940. One power executive remarked: "They wanted ballyhoo and we gave...