Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...necessary during the war not only to limit all trade to peace-time levels and abandon American shipping (except for narrowly defined neutral zones), but also to control rigidly the credit and finance of the country. Moreover, to keep our economic system from becoming geared to a war-time pitch, with the inflation this entails, it would be necessary to control industrial and agricultural production and to fix all prices. More than this, the government would have to begin even now, in peace-time, to build up a surplus of import raw materials as reserve against war scarcity...
Press Agent, Mr. Chester's most spectacular achievement in N.A.M. was the change of pitch between the militant N.A.M. Congress of 1935 and the pacific Congress of 1936, held during the short-lived "era of good-feeling," right after the Roosevelt landslide. Internally the N.A.M. has also changed-into a pressagent for Industry. Legal and statistical departments continue to operate, but the real job of its permanent personnel is selling what N.A.M. calls the "American Way" to the U. S. public. It furnishes newspapers with free stories, provides platform and radio speakers with free speeches, has made four cinema...
...Portland furniture plants were actually being picketed for wage increases and several non-union barbershops were mussed up but these were conspicuous exceptions to local rule of labor against labor. By last week the daily din of brawling, shooting and window-smashing had reached such a pitch that the city revolted. Clamped down by Acting Mayor Robert Early Riley was a sort of mild martial law with a stiff midnight curfew and the entire police force on twelve hour shifts. Emergency authority was granted to hire more officers, buy additional arms and equipment and padlock the haunts of thugs...
Enthusiasm continues at a high-pitch here. All tickets are at a premium. A big send-off is planned for team Friday morning...
...Francisco) learned from hurricane survivors that hurricane sounds vary according to the shape and solidity of objects in the path of the wind. Scale models of buildings and trees were placed in a governed wind stream, and the differing effects recorded. Then Goldwyn engineers stepped up the recording pitch by the same ratio that existed between the scale models and the actual set, got the authentic sound of wind velocities as high as 250 m.p.h...