Word: craning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people nowadays read the late great Author Stephen Crane, though 30 years ago he was a pride of the U. S. His Red Badge of Courage is still considered one of the best war books ever written. A first-class though uneven prose writer, as a versifier he was uniformly second-rate. This book reprints all his poems, including four discovered among his papers in Jacksonville in 1928 and printed in The Bookman last April...
Newspaperman, war correspondent, Author Crane's metrical thoughts on newspapers are interesting...
...COLLECTED POEMS OF STEPHEN CRANE - Knopf...
...head Carnegie Steel, so Schwab chose Grace to be the star of Bethlehem. Tall, slender, faultlessly clothed, President Grace went to Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., there captained the baseball team, there became acquainted with the long rows of mills that mark Steel Town. After graduating he became a crane operator at $1.80 a day (12 hours), started a rise that culminated (February, 1916) in his election to his present job. Under him, Bethlehem boomed through the War. Followed the depression of 1921?Bethlehem has never been depression-proof?and a remarkable period of rebuilding that ended last spring with...
...Crane operators of both types man-oeuvered their hooks with equal calm and skill, feeling that as long as they were working for different concerns on different jobs they could restrain any evil feelings that might otherwise have arisen. The break came when some of Zimble's non-union men did a job for Shaughnessy. At once there was friction in the air. Labor unions representing all the workers employed at the plant investigated the state of affairs, and incidentally ordered a strike. For the past week no work has gone on in consequence, and with the continuance...