Word: monstering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Chicago's 70 businessmen had picked out a monster adversary. Before they can claim success, they must get the War Department's barge line off the Mississippi and Warrior Rivers, stop Federal production of hydroelectric power at Muscle Shoals, turn its river-&-harbor digging over to private hands. Other governmental activities which, as "private business," the F. of A. B. would have to abolish: printing by one of the biggest plants in the U. S.; ship-building at Navy yards; operation of the Alaskan Railroad by the Department of the Interior; the U. S. Shipping Board...
...picture is derived from the monster novel by Theodore Dreiser. In his two tomes, Dreiser impeached not so much a pipsqueak libertine as the social order which produced him. Dissatisfied because the cinema failed to impeach similarly, Dreiser tried and failed to secure an injunction against its showing. But there are other and more important qualities which Dreiser got into his book and which Adapter Samuel Hoffenstein, light-versifier and onetime theatrical pressagent, and Director Josef von Sternberg failed to get into the picture...
Obstetricians at Mercy Hospital, Baltimore last week were at first vexed by the labor of delivering twins from Mrs. Albert Forster, wife of a railroad brakeman. Then they were dumbfounded by the discovery that the twins were a monster joined abdominally by a tube more than a foot long. Finally the doctors were delighted: the twins lived after being cut apart...
...Conference failed, wheat men were conscious that the world's wheat elevators are bulging with last year's surplus and that out of the earth was already springing another monster crop, another incubus. Too discouraged to tear their hair, Chicago wheat pit traders estimated quietly last week that North America will close 1931 with a surplus of one billion bushels-beyond all comparison the all-time record...
...shares of First National Bank with a market value of $35,000,000. The market decline caused other great shrinkage. In 1929, with his Steel holdings worth $22,000,000, his First National holdings worth $8,500 a share. Banker Baker's wealth may well have neared the monster figure of a quarter-billion dollars...