Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with employers and unions: henceforth no copper, lead or zinc miner can leave his job without permission; to make the agreement stick, the War Labor Board raised wages $1 a day - 25% instead of the 15% formula. Said one mine operator: "This is a perfect case of locking the barn door after the horse is stolen." One-fifth of the miners are already gone...
James George Patton came up the hard way. He was born in Bazar, Kans. in 1902, the year the Farmers Union (full name: Farmers Educational & Cooperative Union of America) was founded by a liberal, farm-minded printer and ten farmers in a barn near Point, Tex. When his miner-engineer-farmer father died in Colorado, young Jim had to support his mother, three sisters, a wife and child, and a mortgaged farm. He worked his way through college, managed a co-op insurance company, taught school, finally became secretary of the Colorado Farmers Union in 1934. In 1940 he became...
...buckles down to its job, he thinks, the war may be longer, the peace might be botched. One night last week friends of Mr. Buell's came to his house in Richmond in a hayrack, carried him down to the Town Hall. There, in the intermission of a barn dance, Mr. Buell made a pre-campaign speech-a speech which, because it touched not on local issues but on the whole meaning of Congress today, had implications far beyond Massachusetts' First District. In a tone reminiscent of the feeling of Our Town, Candidate Buell said...
...more energetic members of the University, Albert Haynes will lead barn dancing in Memorial Hall tonight at 8:30 o'clock. After the all day Outing Club trip Saturday, students are offered an evening of ballroom dancing in Memorial Hall again beginning at 8:30 o'clock...
...alive, for questioning. But his prisoners always had their heads and bodies bashed and were dead or dying. Scout Tikhonov wept, and wrung his hands, and promised to do better, and never did. He said that he had seen the Germans rape and kill a girl in the barn at home...