Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...columnist is the autocrat of the most prodigious breakfast table ever known. He is the voice beside the cracker barrel amplified to transcontinental dimensions. He is the only nonpolitical figure of record who can clear his throat each day and say, 'Now, here's what I think. . .' with the assurance that millions will listen . . . [but] in a sense he is irresponsible. No newspaper stands or falls by his words. In him . . . the newspapers have found a method of restoring their lost personal fire without possibly awkward aftermaths...
...some 72 U.S. fields. But it has been stymied by the fact that many a stripper has only a hazy idea of costs, only knows that he is losing money. To get around all this, OPA's subsidy plan arbitrarily defines a stripper field as any producing nine barrels per well, or less, per day. All such strippers would be subsidized on a scale ranging from 35? per barrel for 5 barrel wells to 20? for the nine...
Twenty-six years earlier-a broad-shouldered, barrel-chested youngster-he had joined the Red Army. He was 18, spoiling for a fight, devoted to Bolshevism with a youth's unquestioning faith. He fought, starved, earned a decoration...
Distaffers. None could dispute that Washington's editors need women reporters and writers. At the bottom of the manpower barrel, they are recruiting more & more women. The United Press bureau, which had only one woman reporter before the war, now has eleven on beats and eight others in its office. The Senate and House Galleries, which had some 30 women six years ago, now lists...
Time of Danger. The Album provides an answer. Among the knickknacks and decorations of life, the pots and kettles and meat barrels, there were the objects which testified to the sense of constant danger and the sense of constant strangeness under which the hard-working colonials lived. The barrel of pitch on Beacon Hill in Boston, to be lighted in case of attack, was a far more meaningful landmark than the fire-alarm boxes on contemporary corners-though the menace it was intended to warn against may have been less than city dwellers face today. The animals were strange...