Word: calle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...railroads from the Aberdeen & Rockfish to the Yreka Western, all conventional locomotives have what engineers call a ''Johnson bar" -a manually-operated seven-foot steel lever which puts the locomotive either in reverse or forward motion and also controls the flow of new steam into the boilers to adjust speed. On small engines the Johnson bar causes no trouble, has been used for 50 years without improvement. When bigger engines began to appear 20 years ago, however, handling the bar became back-breaking work and the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers and of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen began agitating...
Promising that the conclave would be "one of the most important, if not the most generally attended of all newspaper conventions in the history of the country," and italicizing the fact that it would be limited to "executives from the home office," Publisher Stahlman & friends summed up their clarion call thus: "[The closed shop] is a most serious threat to a free press, and consequently to the liberties of a free people. Many publishers throughout the country have already expressed the feeling that the newspapers should stand together against this common danger. . . . We cannot urge you too strongly to attend...
...selling out to a banking group. President then and chairman now is a blue-eyed, bulb-nosed Iowa Scot named Walter Kenneth Mclntosh who has been in the company since 1902. Married but childless, he commutes from suburban Oak Park, draws a salary of $27,000. '"Liquid" employes call him "Mr. Mac." Under Mr. Mac, "Liquid" came through Depression with flying colors, lost money only in 1932. In 1930, it made $1,786,000 on sales of $13,626,000. Last year it made $1,107,000. In the first half of the current fiscal year sales jumped...
This easing and broadening of installment credit has already brought cries of alarm from the National Retail Dry Goods Association, will undoubtedly call for further alarm when the Association meets for a mid-year convention in Chicago this week. So far N.R.D.G.A. does not consider the actual volume of installment credit ominous. Installment sales last year probably ran about $4,500,000,000, may run as high as $5,000,000,000 this year- still considerably under the 1929 total...
...Pardo, they have been beaten at Carabanchel, they have been beaten on the Jarama. they have been beaten at Brihuega and at Córdoba, and they are being fought to a standstill at Bilbao. Every time they are beaten in the field they salvage that strange thing they call their honor, by murdering civilians...