Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decades the road had paid $10 a share dividends; the comfort of many a New England family depended on its earnings; it was "New England Investors' Bible," "as safe as Government bonds." J. P. Morgan & Co. controlled the road, the late Charles Sanger Mellen was its president. Ambitious to control all of New England's transportation, the N. Y. N. H. & H. bought trolley, steamship and other connecting lines at inflated values. Financial collapse of the N. Y. N. H. & H. followed. President Mellen was ejected. Later Edward Jones Pearson, able railroad operator, came in as president, while...
...wind capering like a white wolf in the snowy sky and they held out their hands to fires that were colder than the stars. Food was scarce at Valley Forge. The general, his bleak face pinched by the agony of that winter's cold, could promise no comfort. The spring came slowly and the army stayed through a warm June, when trout jumped at twilight in Schuylkill River...
...Privacy? No. Overcrowded? Yes. But there is no lack of ventilation. With the temperature below freezing and a 30-mile wind howling down the valleys and across the hillsides, there is warmth and a measure of comfort in snuggling up close as the cold air rushes in through the unmatched boards. . . . The $3-a-week allowance from the union must furnish food, clothing and other necessaries. For a family of five this means a little less than 9 cents per day. . . ." (New York Evening World...
...National Board of Fire Underwriters took a year and a month to compute 1926 fire losses of $561,980,751 for the U. S., the greatest fire damage ever suffered by any country in any year. Small comfort was drawn from the results of Fire Prevention Week of October, 1926, when 400 fire chiefs of leading cities reported losses of only $400,848 as compared with a weekly normal for their territory of more than $1,200,000. The underwriters said that people can be careful to avoid fires if stirred to do it, but they are simply not careful...
...Hartal. Comfort for Britons lay in the small success achieved by Swarajist leaders, last week, in organizing a hartal or "strike in mourning" against the Commission. Most industrial workers who struck at all struck for only part of one day, and a large majority of Indian shop-keepers ignored the call to close their shops. Many riots were characteristically not between Indians and the police but between Non-Co-operators and other Indians who preferred to go about their business...