Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...River, which flows some 250 mountainous miles from southwestern Virginia in a hook northwest into West Virginia,* is a thoroughly old-fashioned stream. The New is unimproved, except for traces of a small Congressional appropriation a half-century ago; like all unimproved streams it alternately races and moseys, brawls and dawdles. Fifteen years ago Appalachian Electric Power Co. decided to throw a dam across the New, five miles above the little town of Radford, Va. (pop. 6,898). The Federal Power Commission demanded that Appalachian accept a license to dam the stream for a power plant. Under the Federal Water...
...belabored N. A. M.'s old, familiar devils: bureaucracy, U. S. fiscal policy, restrictive labor laws. At the session on "Production Aspects of Preparedness," four of the speeches were on labor problems, the fifth on the fifth column. In a round table that touched on plant capacity, Steelman Hook and Oilman Farish both said their industries had enough...
Aircraft manufacturers had already begun to bring the automobile industry into their business, on their own hook. Hudson is to make parts for Curtiss-Wright airplanes; Studebaker has been licensed to build Wright engines. Packard has a contract to make 9,000 Rolls-Royce engines for the U. S. and Great Britain. Douglas and United Aircraft's Vought-Sikorsky (airplane) division also look to automobile-body factories for airplane parts. Last week the biggest of all these contract links between the two industries was completed. Let to Henry Ford was a $122,000,000 contract to build Pratt & Whitney...
...were Marion Link, Iowa State champion, Ecas Vaughan, Illinois State champion, Irving Bauman, also from Illinois, runner-up in the nationals in 1935 and 1938. The contestants, some of them stripped to the waist, sweated up & down the corn rows, snatching off the dried ears, husking them with a hook strapped to the wrist, flinging them against the "bang-boards" of tractor-drawn wagons...
...last the critics and intellectuals have gotten Charley Chaplin, hook, line, and sinker. Conscious that he has an IMPORTANT MESSAGE to bring to America, he has in his first talkie painfully given birth to a bastard offspring in which Chaplin the world's greatest clown plays second fiddle to Chaplin the preacher...