Word: bunking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That's all bunk. It's worse than bunk; it's propaganda issued in a desperate effort to discredit the Air Service...
...Buffalo, member of the Banking and Currency Committee of the House, is living at Cornell University, taking a course in Economics. Said he last week: "This idea that a man can't learn anything after he is 40 is bunk." His professor reported that he was an "industrious student...
...have determined that the $100 minimum wage, even with the large crews which we carry, leaves us a substantial profit, and all talk that this is a blow to the American merchant marine or other shippers is bunk. The big shipping companies do not pay decent wages merely because they do not have to. They are interested in keeping their men away from conditions in which they might enjoy the advantages that good wages bring. They want their sailors to remain in ignorance of the better things in life in order that there will be no demand for better wages...
...prepared to say that his experiment is all 'bunk.' All I can say is that what I saw of it was. And I put in a couple of days in his shop...
...outcome of the Mitchell controversy and a move to forestall a United Air Service. They stress in particular the fact that not more than 30 or 40% of the young men will be able to pass the physical tests. Colonel Mitchell goes so far as to call the scheme "bunk...