Word: gas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nobles staged a regular Rugger scrum for the tiny Peers Gallery. One peer was knocked down, although the Earl of Glasgow had cautioned beforehand: "I do hope your Lordships will manage to conduct yourselves with decorum!" Last measure introduced before the session was scheduled to become secret was The Gas and Steam Vehicles Excise Bill. Too decorous to raise the famed old cry of "I spy!" Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain rose at 3 : 5 7 p.m. and observed...
...diplomatic storm raged. Germans furiously charged the use of mustard gas, then dropped the charge. American Governments helplessly talked over what to do about this violation of their 300-mile neutral zone. Germany accused Uruguay of not allowing enough time for repairs...
...theatre slang, they're handcuffed: an audience which does not applaud; chew the scenery: to rant; flag: curtain; and cakes: the manager pays the actor's board; playing to the gas: a miserably small audience...
When the New Deal was putting over its "Death Sentence" Public Utility Holding Company Act, Associated Gas and Electric's Howard Hopson spent $1,000,000 lobbying against it. With his roly-poly body and ear-to-ear smile, he became the utility industry's "mystery man" and lone wolf. Last week Hopson was hopelessly ill with heart disease, and Associated (a $1,000,000,000 system) was in financial trouble such as never caught up with it when he was at the helm...
...great boom had given Associated a few more palmy years, it might have succeeded in merging with another $1,000,000,000 system, Standard Gas and Electric Co. Standard runs 26 operating utilities, among them Pittsburgh's large Duquesne Light Co. and Wisconsin Public Service Co. For years Standard was controlled by Chicago's private utility bankers, H. M. Byllesby and Co. Nowadays, Byllesby plays second fiddle in Standard to Manhattan's up-&-coming, bargain-hunting Syndicateer Victor Emmanuel...