Word: shutting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because bigwig Reds approved it before they could possibly know anything about it. ''The leaders of the Communist Party," wrote Mr. Hicks in the weekly New Republic, "have tried to appear omniscient, and they have succeeded in being ridiculous. They have clutched at straws, juggled sophistries, shut their eyes to facts. . . . They have shown that they are strong in faith-which the future mayor may not justify-and weak invitelligence...
...time being socially fixed. With the women it was different. Many thousands of British working women found themselves suddenly out of work as business and industry adjusted themselves to wartime conditions. Thousands of maids and nurses lost their jobs, now that so many families were dislocated. Small factories shut down in fear of bombs, although many, particularly in the garment trade, are reopening as a result of the war boom in uniforms. Hardest hit were typists, stenographers, clerks, sacked when firms folded up or skeletonized their staffs as they deserted the big towns. Shopgirls getting 30 to 40 shillings...
...more Swedish freighters got it (one of them after the captain had been taken aboard the U-boat, given a cup of coffee and sandwiches), and it became Norway's turn, too, with three Britain-bound pulpsters sunk, two by torpedoes, one by a mine. Sweden protested bitterly, shut down her pulp business temporarily, threatened as sharply as she dared to cut off her shipments of iron ore to Germany* if Germany did not cut out sinking her ships...
...Then, on the third day, came Our Boys' last chance to nail the pennant in front of the homefolks. With three games left to play they could still clinch it in Pittsburgh, by winning two games of their final series against the Pirates. But the Reds had been shut out in the last two games, had failed to score a run in 24 innings; their fielding had become butterfingered. Things looked dark in Cincinnati...
...More completely devastated than any country except Belgium, Poland had 11,000,000 acres of farm land put out of use, lost 6,000,000 acres of forest. Her textile industry was smashed, foundries and steel works shut down. War with Bolshevik Russia lasted two years after the general peace...