Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Charles Ruffin Hook, vice president of American Rolling Mill Co.: "Wage reductions would, in our opinion, retard and not stimulate business...
...away India obstreperous Gand-hites wear white, homespun "Gandhi Caps," which British policemen fish off their heads. The fishing is done with poles having a sharp hook at the end, and while they fish the police beat the nonresisting Gandhites with staves (TIME, July 7). It was in protest against such "inhumanity" that ascetic Laborite Archibald Fenner Brockway, M. P., 42, a leading publicist and orator of his party, was startling the House with his "Gandhi Cap." He demanded that without further ado his chief, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald permit debate on India, then and there...
...instead of 135 lb., put on thick clothes and ran around the Yankee Stadium until the pound came off. That evening, pallid and drawn, he came out of his corner cautiously to meet Singer, sturdy Bronx Semite. After a moment of tentative jabbing. Singer lashed out with a left hook and knocked the champion down. At the count of three Mandell got up. Singer knocked him down again and Mandell stayed on the canvas while the timekeeper's mallet thumped seven times. Again he got up, his brain dead now. He wavered backward helplessly while Singer, groping wildly...
...crude oil pipe from Negley, Ohio to Bayonne, N. J., into a gasoline line. Most important of proposed gasoline pipe lines are: Magnolia Petroleum Co.'s go-mi, three-inch line from Luling, Tex. to San Antonio; Sun Oil Co.'s 500-mi. Susquehanna line from Marcus Hook, Pa. to Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Akron; Phillips Petroleum Co.'s 800-mi. line from Texas Panhandle to St. Louis and Kansas City...
...opponents and for his ability to cling to the arms, ribs and elbows of those whom he respects, amazed a crowd of 20,000 by poking several long lefts into the sallow face of Otto Von Porat, lanky Norwegian. Before the first round ended Stribling suddenly lashed a left hook against Von Porat's jaw. The Norwegian fell flat on his back, was counted...