Word: auto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...done better in the automobile plants outside the city. United Automobile Workers of America, a merger of most of the labor organizations whose internecine struggles helped contribute to Labor's failure in Detroit, claims a membership of some 60,000, which is less than one-seventh of all auto, body and parts workers, and is probably an exaggeration at that. But automobiles are on John L. Lewis' list of prospects for industrial organization...
...entitled "The Centennial of Mormonism" about Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Mormons are not necessarily polygamists etc. Joseph Smith found the golden tablets of the Angel Moroni on a hilltop in Palmyra, New York. When the Vagabond was little he went to Palmyra once, on Decoration Day, to see an auto-race...
...first-string racing cars in this country, stopped building racing cars two or three years ago, the waves of nationalism that have swept over Italy and Germany have resulted in the development of the most prodigious racing machines ever seen. The Italian Alfa-Romeos and the German Mercedes and Auto Union, which are their match in every respect, have engines of over 400 h.p. in cars which weigh less than half the weight of a Chevrolet, and they have all exceeded a speed of 200 mi. per hour on the straight. They have had lavished on them every available facility...
...American Business Men's Research Foundation graph (TIME, Oct. 12, p. 62-63) referred to by TIME as indicative of a major relationship between auto fatalities and consumption of alcohol leads me to wonder if you have swallowed that particular piece of statistical skulduggery. The inference drawn by the above mentioned foundation is, of course, unwarranted on the basis of the evidence they present...
...fair example of this Elizabethan lust for life that is satisfied by Boston's Home Picture Newspaper, the following headlines called from two pages may be cited: Madman Kidnaps Auto Driver. Vodka Homicide, Dies in Auto Blaze, Air Vet Held in Matricide, Dead Beside Prayers, Find Body of Girl Severed, Battle Today on Bertolini, and Hot Knife Halts Bleeding, while corporate liquidation is taken advantage of by the merry police, who drag the river bottom in "the hope of stirring up more of the body...