Word: holing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week almost the entire cinema industry-producers, exhibitors, makers of sound equipment-felt sheepishly good. A fox which had been snarling at their heels for more than a year was curtly flicked back into his hole by Washington's nine wise old men, and the industry wondered why it ever got excited in the first place...
Dashing through the icy upper reaches of the Charles, the first 150 pound crew yesterday hit a monstrous iceberg, and stove a large hole in the boat. Cox Ed Barker steered his craft up to an ice pan, and the crew jumped for shore, only two falling by the wayside...
...outstanding marksman like scoring by Winmill and Davis gave the galloping Easterners the hairbreadth edge required to defeat their enlisted opponents. Working beautifully together, Davis and Gerry put up such a formidable defense that their hosts were unable to find the necessary scoring loop-hole during the last three chukkers...
...good. To Senator Wagner and other insurgents who favor more & bigger appropriations for relief flocked many an Old Guardsman seeking to put the President in a hole, many a Democrat who wanted to curry favor with the A. F. of L., many a Senator who believed that five billions for relief was too much, that the surest way of killing it was to boost the figure so much higher that the President could not accept it. Shrewd Huey Long, striving to wreak his vengeance on the Administration, succeeded at the last minute in transferring a critical "pair." Result: the prevailing...
Matthias W. Baldwin founded Baldwin Locomotive Works in his tiny shop in Lodge Alley, Philadelphia in 1831. His first locomotive, "Old Ironsides," weighed five tons, had to be taken out of the shop through a hole in the wall. It could run the six miles from Philadelphia to Germantown in twelve minutes-in good weather. In 1849 Matthias Baldwin built the "Governor Paine" which worked up a speed of 60 m.p.h. on the new Vermont Central Railroad. Baldwin locomotives puffed through the Civil War, through the lusty era of Westward expansion, through the Spanish-American War until, during the World...