Word: children
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coal miners' children (ambitious to be doctors, lawyers, businessmen, teachers, actresses), the nine Morgantown boys and four girls, aged 16-19, had, with three exceptions, never seen a big city. First stop after they left their strike-bound coal fields was Washington, where they were bedded in a tourist camp, rose at 4:30 to begin sightseeing, ended the day marveling at how little work Congressmen did to earn their...
...Street, visited other business districts, the Aquarium, Bellevue Hospital (which awed them), Radio City, headquarters of the Consolidation (Rockefeller) Coal Co. (which owns some of their mines). In rapid succession during the next six days, pausing only to eat and take a few winks of sleep, Morgantown's children rode a tug around New York Harbor, where the girls hallooed at sailors on U. S. warships, inspected the Europa, bridges, power plants, tenements, museums, topped a whole day of sightseeing with a whole night of prowling through riverfront markets...
...Schwarze Korps (SS newspaper) expressed horror that ten out of 17 graduates of a school in Westphalia planned to study theology. The paper complained of parents who "drive their children like a herd of sheep to the spiritual slaughterhouse of the clergy and thus, only by this 'sacrifice' that doesn't hurt them at all, try to secure a place in heaven at the expense of other people...
...rolled in at most front doors, displayed on sales floors among radios and refrigerators. Markets which Crosley dealers will go for hardest: the man who cannot afford a new higher-priced car; the family with one standard car which could use a second for shopping, commuting, taking the children to school. But, as Willys has found, the market for cars that can be built to sell new below $600 is strictly limited, is always subject to invasion by cheaper models of the watchful Big Three...
...weeks after publication of her autobiography, My Days of Strength (TIME, April 24). Called "the best-known and best-loved woman between Suez and the China Coast," Dr. Fearn was born on a Mississippi plantation, went to China at 25, founded a coeducational medical school, a school for American children, the Fearn Sanitarium in Shanghai, retired last year to write her book...