Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ford, Charley Anderson had native mechanical skill, loved to tinker with machines. Like Taylor, he suffered because he tried to speed up production, to make manufacture efficient, and shrank from the resulting hostility of workmen. Veblen, a lifelong student of the conflict between production and finance, who saw the constant "sabotage of production by business," adds an ironic footnote to Charley's tragedy...
This year Farmer Hughes, in return for being on constant exhibition, will get the use of all these electrical devices free. Next year, if he chooses, he can buy them at reduced prices, operate them for $18 a month. Every gadget had last week been thoroughly mastered except an electric razor. Farmer Hughes's 31-year-old son claimed he had cut himself while using...
...which operates more vehicles (3,000) than any other municipal department, declared that such temporary safety drives are not "worth a darn." Having tried them without success the Sanitation Department two years ago formed a permanent safety division whose sole job is to decrease accidents by rigorous investigation and constant regulation. Since then, accidents to the department's trucks have steadily declined until last month they reached a new low of .188 per 100 pieces of equipment...
Four years ago this summer Franklin D. Roosevelt's constant confidant and companion was Columbia University's Professor Raymond Moley. Citizens who then saw their next President for the first time saw almost as often the sharp, shrewd features of "Ray" Moley, got the definite impression that most of the facts and theories which Nominee Roosevelt was expounding on the stump originated in the teeming Moley mind. On March 4, 1933 Dr. Moley went to Washington as Assistant Secretary of State, No. 1 Brain Truster and one of the new President's most potent and intimate advisers...
Turning to the brawny onetime preacher who had been his constant companion and counselor for weeks, the old man generously declared: "I'd like to see it go to some young man, like Gerald Smith...