Word: crafting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...toward naked Montauk Point, the 190-ft. Mackay Radio tower at Napeague was flung to earth. Fishing craft were splintered, fishermen's shacks blown to flinders. Refugees huddled marooned in the brick-walled Montauk Manor on high ground. On Long Island's northerly finger the hurricane from the south made shambles of the shipyards of Greenport, unroofed a full movie theatre...
...sound, twice as fast as man has ever flown, nearly thrice as fast as man has traveled on land (see p. 47). But Russian-born Inventor Ivan Eremeef, Philadelphia protégé of Orchestra-man Leopold Stokowski, was last week tinkering with a model for just such a craft. Inventor Eremeef's wingless, finned, torpedo-like conception, carrying two small cannon and four hours' fuel supply, would zip 1,000 miles or more to bombard an enemy, could then retreat at a speed faster than some enemy bullets could chase...
...principle that the Wagner Act should be amended by the next Congress, without endorsing any of A. F. of L.'s specific proposed amendments. These include: 1) separating the administrative and judicial functions of NLRB; 2) protecting the right of any group, however small, to bargain on a craft basis; and 3) permitting an employer to advise his employes regarding the choice between two "legitimate" unions...
...project they had laid down a long-range program. The Project's personnel, they decided, was to be drawn from relief rolls in four classes: professional, skilled, intermediate and unskilled. As by their works they became better known, skilled men were employed in research, teaching and craft work, intermediates formed an apprentice class for training, and unskilled personnel came in handy in various ways...
...everyday part of living and working. To accomplish the first aim, the Index of American Design was set up in January 1936, and to date has employed about 500 watercolorists and draftsmen in digging up old wood carving, weathervanes, costumes, toys, needlework, china, and other craft objects of which more than 8,000 renderings, of marvelous exactitude, have already been made. This compilation is to U. S. design what the Code Napoléon was to French...