Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after two decades, Denver threw Old Ben and his creaky machine out of office and replaced him with dark-haired, baby-faced Attorney J. (for James) Quigg Newton...
...union they have put together is the N.M.U., certainly no joke. It is a story of men who are reweaving the country's social fabric, men who think about democracy a good part of the time and who act on their thought. The book is called "The Dark Ship," because that is the kind of title that sells books. It should have been called by the title of its second part, The New American, because essentially it is the story of new men and the unions that renewed them...
...Dark Ship" tells the story of this union from the inside. For all their significance in the American scene, the details of what a union is and how it operates are not well known. The confusion in Congress is proof enough of that. Even the hydra-headed collosi we know as corporations are more familiar, and often more respected. After a brilliant reporting job on a crew and its union activity at sea, Boyer describes the union as a working democracy, as part of the lives of its members, and not as simply a far-away bureaucracy which has lost...
...South & West have been fighting ever since to get the rates down. They claimed that their high rates were part of a dark conspiracy contrived by eastern capital. They cited examples to show how they had been handicapped (a manufacturer in New York could ship the 852 miles into Louisville for less than an Atlanta manufacturer, only 449 miles away). Even Canadian shippers could reach the rich eastern markets, over equal distances, at a cheaper rate...
...opening scenes, haunted with grimly exaggerated sounds of wind, in the desolate mid-marsh graveyard where Pip first meets the convict, are an achievement in romantic terror; the vast, dark,dust-ridden rooms in which Miss Havisham holds court in her rotting wedding dress are presented with the same belief-compelling recklessness...