Word: floating
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...over any navigable stream "is as broad as the needs of commerce"-a definition which broadened the commerce clause of the Constitution almost immeasurably. Justices Owen Roberts and James C. McReynolds dissented vigorously, holding that ". . . then every creek in every State of the Union which has enough water ... to float a boat drawing two feet of water may be pronounced navigable. . . . Congress can create navigability by determining to improve a non-navigable stream...
...business, held its 45th Congress of American Industry. It was the best-attended Congress to date. Some 2,500 NAMembers jammed Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria for the final dinner, which was the second biggest dinner* the Waldorf had ever served. Present were enough tycoons to float a national economy. Men like General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan, U. S. Steel's Irving Olds and Ben Fairless, Standard Oil's William Farish, Du Font's Lammot du Pont, Swift's John Holmes, Bethlehem's Eugene Grace, General Electric's Philip Reed, Goodyear...
...authoritative source said that in all likelihood the ships, when taken over, would be made available to the British, who are willing to buy almost "anything that will float...
...third time, lurching, monolithic Primo Camera, who pushed his way to the world's boxing championship seven years ago, was rejected for service in the Italian Army. Heavyweight Camera tried to enlist as a parachutist, was told no ordinary parachute would float his 292 pounds...
...very fact that a man is a CRIMSON candidate given him an entree into places from which he would usually be barred: theatre backstages. Wellesley float nights, political headquarters, and University Hall are all opened to the reporter...