Word: corral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admiration of his patriotic courage, his large vision and his statesmanlike sense of what has to be done. I like to lay my mind alongside of a mind that knows how to pull in harness. The horses that kick over the traces will have to be put in a corral...
...Just as in 1917, we are seeking to pull in harness; just as in 1917. horses that kick over the traces will have to be put in a corral. . . . There are hotheads who think that results can be obtained by noise or violence; there are insidious voices seeking to instill methods or principles which are wholly foreign to the American form of Democratic government. . . . The overwhelming majority of the workers understand, as do the overwhelming majority of the employers of the country, that this is no time to seek special privilege, undue advantage, or personal gain because of the fact...
...building trades, printing and the theatre. The rest of U. S. industry was pretty much wide-open shop. Plant Unions. The National Recovery Act, with its collective bargaining pledge, sent the A. F. of L. rushing headlong into open-shop industries to organize its own unions before employers could corral workers into company unions. Under the law either type of union is legitimate so long as it is the one workers want. A. F. of L. organizers hurried from plant to plant, harangued prospective members, offered to reduce or waive initiation fees if they would only sign up. In some...
...City (year-round population: 300) is the massive stone Opera House where once Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson and Rose Coghlan played to rowdy frontier audiences, and where the Passion Play was given in stereopticon pictures. The contractor Brothers McFarlane built it in 1878 on the site of a horse corral. When the mining boom spread away to west & south, mountain rats took Central City over. Rain streaked the Rhenish landscape on the Opera House curtain and the gaudy murals done by a forgotten painter named Massman. In 1931 the McFarlane heirs gave the sorry pile to Denver University...
...prices would sink no lower than last week's 5?. But a fierce war for the other markets of the world was in sight, a war that would end either with the high-cost producers driven off or with a whipped Roan Antelope creeping into the corral. Running at full blast Roan can supply only 14% of the copper needed outside the U. S. But Roan can lay copper down in Liverpool for under 4?, which not even Katanga can meet, and 3? under most U. S. companies. With no new public utilities construction and no good...