Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lincoln's boys and girls had fun going to dances, hearing Negro choirs, fighting a forest fire, chatting with a Georgia chain gang that dug a path for their busses through a landslide. Most fun, however, was a two-taste of farm life in Georgia's Habersham County. After a hearty breakfast of grits, bacon & eggs and biscuits covered with ham gravy and corn syrup, the boys and girls went forth into the fields to string barbed wire fences, lime the ground, scrape roads, chop trees, split logs, ride mules, barbecue a pair of pigs, drive a tractor...
...Assembly did take action en another matter put over at its last session. An Anglican layman named G. W. Currie had read, in a survey of 30.000 London houses owned by the Church, that some Maida Vale properties were "of dubious reputation morally." There were stories that girls in chains had been found in a Church-owned flat. Layman Currie moved a resolution deprecating this situation. But from testimony it appeared that, wherever possible, the ecclesiastical commissioners are getting out of bad leases, and that, according to Scotland Yard, "There is no need to capture girls and chain them...
Next day, while in Christ Church a lay reader with simple prayer kept unbroken the chain of Sunday services which John Wesley began, a schoolman, Headmaster G. C. Durand of Sea Island School, declared that there were "many dives" in the county. Dr. Lee, concerned over them, had said: "Some great tragedy will have to occur before Glynn County will have law and order." Said Headmaster Durand: "This looks like the tragedy...
...many localities the beef campaigns and others which followed had a long-range effect not originally foreseen. In a campaign for lamb, prices continued to rise for six months after the promotion slopped. In pushing grapefruit, one chain company developed so many new customers that its sales rose 1,695% m rural territories. A new market was opened up. One farm woman wrote: "I boiled the thing [grapefruit] for three hours and a half and it was just as tough afterward as when I began...
Campaigns have also been made for turkeys, walnuts, dried fruit, apples, avocados, eggs. In many of them independent stores have also played a part. This year campaigns have already been planned for eggs, rice, potatoes. Because the 1937 bean crop is 23% greater than the 1928-32 norm, chain-store house organs last week sloganed: "Make America bean appreciative." Said Printers' Ink: "These campaigns have demonstrated that farm relief can be practical. . . . Here is a partnership of producers and distributors that has brought producers and consumers closer together, with a taste of prosperity for the farmer, but, unlike taxes...