Word: clingingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heavy with fruit last week were 51,000 acres of California cling peach trees. Heavy too were their owners' hearts. The Peach Protective Association telegraphed Attorney General Homer S. Cummings: "You respectfully are requested . . . to investigate the activities of the Canning Industry Board of California, an association of about two-thirds of all canneries in the State, which has blocked the issuance of the marketing order proposed by the State Department of Agriculture. . . . The result has been that, notwithstanding this year's crop is the smallest in three years, the price offered growers is the lowest...
Roosevelt a liberal? Pfuey! Not even appraised by the flimsy connotations which still cling to the word is he one. He is a rock-ribbed conservative when the reference is to his own, to what he has struggled to get hold of; and so is every other man. So is John L. Lewis, so is Browder. Each and every one of them has on occasion clawed and bitten and beat the stairs, yelling foul, when thoughtless "liberals" have sought to divide up their powers, perquisites and glories. If there is any meaning left in the word "liberal," 1938 style...
...Cling to your flesh and bone, 0 heart, and bear your bitter leaf...
...which raised wages still further. Goodyear, Firestone and to a lesser extent Goodrich then began building plants in such scattered spots as Oaks, Pa., Jackson, Mich., Fall River, Mass. Akron now produces only 40% of U. S. rubber as against 55% two years ago. Akron rubber workers, however, still cling to their high wage rate (an average of $1.05 an hour against a nationwide average of 96.3?), even though it has meant part-time work for some of them and hence a smaller annual income. Therefore, factories outside Akron have been able to make their products more cheaply than those...
...power is emerging; in the Far East, a new nation is building an empire; and in Austria, Hitler is beginning to realize his long sought-after union of the German peoples. In Switzerland, the placid waters of Lake Geneva lap in the ears of the few remaining statesmen who cling to the ideal of collective security, and in the rest of the world prophets of despair are again preparing funeral services for the League of Nations. Here in America, even while mid-western senators are raising the familiar cry, "We are isolated," legislative machinery to produce more money...