Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which the various presidents, vice presidents and treasurers boiled up and over at your gibe in your comment on the meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers. If they were as constant readers of TIME as I they would know that to enjoy a crack at Big Hearted (with other people's money) Harry Hopkins and Honest Harold Ickes we must learn to take one ourselves occasionally. Mr. Bath is as weak on hitching his quotation to the right person as the schoolgirl who thought that Laurel was the man who said, "Kiss me, Hardy...
...minutes before, Canadian National's crack Maple Leaf express (Chicago-Montreal) had shot through an open switch at a-mile-a-minute, knifed its way through two cars of a holiday excursion train, killed 15, injured 32. The excursion train had been stalled on a siding with engine trouble. A jittery brakeman, seeing the approaching headlight of the Maple Leaf, had lost his head, switched the flyer off the main line onto the siding...
...Andrews and James Lippitt Clark, another youngster who later became a crack field man for the Museum, went out to Amagansett where the carcass had been beached. The whalers took the blubber and the scientists bought the rest for $3,200. The skeleton remained imbedded in 50 tons of flesh. The weather was bitter cold...
...supply meat to 120,000,000 inhabitants, 115,000,000 hogs, cattle, sheep and calves from the plains of Texas to the clover fields of Iowa go annually to market. . . . At the slaughterhouse, in the dim bluish light of the knocking pens, a Negro swings his three-pound hammer. Crack! On the steer's skull midway between the scared eyes the blow falls. Great shackles swing down to lift the limp stunned animal, head down, rump high. The short curved knife bites deep into the bristled neck seeking the throbbing artery. Into great cans oozes the dark red blood...
Newspapers throughout the U. S. interpreted the Court's decision as a victory for George, a yardman for the Southern Railroad when in 1903 its crack mail train tore down the side of White Oak Mountain, plunged off a curving trestle near Danville, Va. (see cut). George claimed that he helped pry nine bodies out of the wreckage, then went home inspired to tell the tragedy in verse. In a Federal District court he won his fight for royalties.* But when Victor appealed, the decision was reversed and his claim dismissed as fraudulent (TIME...