Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average mule would take great pleasure in walking on the "bed" or row should he find his driver wanted him to walk elsewhere. However it would be impractical and unnecessary to drive friend mule atop the bed to plow up surplus cotton...
...papers at all hours on the street, is subject to physical and moral evil. States and municipalities could oversee him. but hardly any city does an effective job of it. The carrier of morning papers is also a problem, when he is a 10-year-old, getting out of bed at 3 a.m. to serve his route. In contrast, there is little to be said against boys acting as carriers of afternoon papers in residential districts, and much in favor of it. They sacrifice a couple of hours of play time every after noon, but they learn punctuality, dependability, business...
...Southampton already has the world's largest floating dry dock, a hollow steel bed 860 ft. long. Water is pumped into its hollow walls until it sinks. The ship floats over it. Then the water is pumped out and the steel bed rises with the ship...
...schoolchildren, past massed choirs singing "Rule Britannia." It sailed toward a great spur of dock enclosing a bay and 400 acres of reclaimed land. Here, on the spearhead of Southampton's $65,000,000 port improvement project was a dry dock, built for $6,250,000, fit to bed down a 100,000-ton liner such as does not now exist. Through its gate, liners will float into a huge masonry bed. A sliding caisson will drop behind them. Four 54-in. centrifugal pumps will take out water until the ship sits on the concrete bottom, propped upright...
Notably absent and unmentioned at last week's ceremony was the heroine for whom Southampton's mighty new bed was made, the Cunard Line's unfinished 73,000-ton liner "No. 534." It lay last week in its Clydebank, Scotland yards, unfinished for lack of a Government subsidy. Designed to make 30 knots, cross the Atlantic in four days flat to beat the North German Lloyd's Bremen & Europa, "No. 534" last rang with hammers two years ago. But at a luncheon after the ceremony last week Cunard's plow-chinned Board Chairman Sir Percy...