Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just in case the preferred stockholders are still stubborn, Mr. Mynatt is not going to stop work on his plant. He pointed out to the City Council that T. P. S. had spent $800,000 improving its property since his original offer, and the city's savings (from lower rates, etc.) would amount to $1,000,000. He will charge regular TVA rates: 75? for 25 kilowatt hours a month for residential use (T. P. S. rates: $1 for 15 kilowatt hours). City poles and wires already strung can be used to replace worn out poles and wires...
...Sultan of Zanzibar, who likes nothing better than sailing his yacht in the Indian Ocean and going to London now & then, came to his senses some time ago. But the English association was stubborn. Seyyid Sir Khalifa bin Harub knew well that in a few more months his Sultanate would go through the East African equivalent of 776 and he might do little or no yachting. Finally, last week, news came from Zanzibar that an agreement had been signed, Indian pickets could relax. From now on the English association's monopoly will govern only half the trade in Zanzibar...
...south bank of the Grand Canal at Hanchwang, where it intersects the railway connecting Peking with Shanghai, not only kept the Japanese from crossing and drove them back again & again to the north bank, but finally stormed across the canal themselves. At Lini, 55 miles to the east, stubborn Chinese defenders still had not yielded the town, although pounded all week by Japanese artillery and bombers...
...publisher but knew of this profitable friendship between two stubborn individualists, and two years ago David Stern's New York Post flatly described Mr. Block as a "Hearst stooge." But since 1931 Mr. Block has reduced his holdings to Newark, Pittsburgh and Toledo, says that what he runs he owns. So Mr. Block's grey fringe bristled when Robert S. Allen, sharpshooting Washington columnist, wrote last September in the Nation...
...Chinese last week continued their magnificent defense of their so-called "Hindenburg Line" (TIME, March 21), protecting the vital east-west Lunghai Railroad, showed stubborn resistance particularly at Kaifeng, some 300 miles inland from the Yellow Sea. Jubilantly, Chinese General Hsu Pei-ken, press officer to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, declared, "The Japanese are in the soup...