Word: badness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wickliffe, fast Bellboy left defense, after playing a considerable part of the match, was put out of action early in the second period when he had a bad fall...
...only console is that the American public is fickle. It soon forgets bad news the same as it forgets good news. We know that a lot of things will happen throughout the world tonight that will cause us to forget the things that were reported yesterday. But, please TIME, pretty please, give Cicero its rightful break...
...slowing down on the job just as new models were coming out. Chrysler unionists voted, 25,402 to 2,030, to make it a formal strike when & if their leaders wished. But only at the Dodge plant, in the seventh week, was a formal strike called. Why Peace? The bad news from Detroit had been like powder smoke to U. S. Attorney General Frank Murphy, who was Michigan's "sitdown Governor." With Franklin Roosevelt, he talked over the enormous monetary and social losses, the discredit cast on Labor's political friends. C. I. O.'s Vice Presidents...
...which then became a grand duchy with a Parliament of its own and wide autonomous rights. In 1905 the Finns went on a national strike against the Tsar's usurpation of their rights, and unprecedentedly won. The Red Terror that came with the 1917 Russian Bolshevik revolution was bad enough: the White Guard Terror which followed was even worse. The Finns are therefore used to trouble...
Meantime, October railroad carloadings were up 18.7% over last year. This was not surprising. For 15 years, whether traffic is good or bad, trucks have tended to do a little better than railroads. In 1925, when anybody with enough spare cash for a second-hand truck could go into the trucking business, trucks carried less than 2% of all U. S. freight. The rest was taken care of by the railroads (76%), waterways (17%), pipe lines (5%). By 1937 trucks were up to 5%, railroads down to 66%, and the process apparently still goes...