Word: broken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After some 1,400 Maytag workers had gone back, it appeared that no one had got much except a lesson in labor relations. The union had lost its strike and taken a wage cut; the company in beating the strike, had not broken the union, had stored up plenty of potential labor trouble for the future. Governor Kraschel had some tall explaining to do to Iowa's labor vote. Rumbled the union president, James B. Carey: "The Governor is doing what he thinks is politically necessary, but we think his position is political suicide...
...heat records were broken, but temperatures of 90° or higher were recorded day after day in Kansas City, Baltimore, Boston, Washington-in most cases accompanied by unusually high humidity readings. (In Washington, 92°, a woman telephoned the Weather Bureau, asked "Where will I have to go to cool off? New Hampshire?" "Sorry," replied the Weather Bureau, "it's 90 in New Hampshire.") The Act of God which produced these extraordinary phenomena was the misbehavior, for no apparent reason, of high and low pressure areas. These areas usually proceed across the U. S., from west to east...
...love, admire and emulate." At the end of it, Consul Zarza pinned a blue-ribboned gold medal upon Major Rowan. It was the Order of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuba's highest honor.* The old soldier, suffering from age's infirmities and a rib broken last April, received his reward in silence...
...Aircraft Douglas 525,822 1.093,149 Martin 526,307 1,372,600 Cinema Paramount 4,290,000 1,225,811 Twentieth Century-Fox (26 weeks) 3,755,483 3,419,658 d=deficit The gloominess of some of these earnings was somewhat lessened when they were broken down. General Motors, for example, made $24,786,002 in the second quarter of 1938 compared to only $8,234,017 in the first quarter. With a similar improvement from $2,109,969 in the first quarter to $3,559,631 in the second, Chrysler's President K. T. Keller reported...
...fudge, Oh Henry! is one of the three best-selling 5? candy bars in the U. S. (others: Milky Way, Baby Ruth). Like most confectioners, Oh Henry's maker-a subsidiary of $1.250.000 General Candy Corp.-is pestered with damage suits. In 1936, 100 people claimed they had broken teeth, bruised gums or damaged their digestion on stones, twigs, wires and nails that slipped by Oh Henry! inspectors. Last year, General's President George Huhn Williamson, following the example of W. F. Schrafft & Sons Co., installed two $3.000 Adrian fluoroscopes (Xray machines), routed as many...