Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York every industry is undermanned-as is the case generally in the East. Trade is booming in every state. The South and Southwest need farmhands. Liquor and beverages, lumber, vehicles, paper, chemicals, stone, clay and glass industries have vastly increased employment since March. Thus labor has turned the corner and need fear little more reaction. With immigration restricted, there is a " corner in labor " that will enable union leaders to reestablish the positions they lost in the years of unemployment that followed...
Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor: " It is not a dull world as you escape from your little corner and look around hurriedly. A colony of women in one part of London have solved their living problem by becoming professional rat catchers, in spite of a woman's ancient horror of rats, dating from days when the cave woman came home to find that cave rats had eaten her baby. They catch the rats alive, 25,000 of them a month, and sell them to doctors and others for vivisection for eight cents each...
...dusty corner of the Louvre a Paris antiquarian discovered Napoleon's bay mare?that he rode at Waterloo...
...this tight place, Bemis was substituted for Young on the mound. Leete did not give the former a chance to get his hand in, but selecting the first ball, which broke low on the outside corner of the plate, he lifted it into deep left field, clearing the bases and reaching third himself. In spite of this discouraging start, Bemis settled down, and retired Warner for the last...
...proposed Swiss corner in Angora cats, which may violate the Chester concession...