Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the United Textile Workers announced that they would go on strike with less than $1,000,000 in their treasury to provide strike benefits for 300,000 strikers, their leaders intimated that, of course, the Relief Administration would feed them. Manufacturers promptly emitted a deep and throaty growl at Government-financed strikes. Last week before going to consult with the President at Hyde Park, Mr. Hopkins did his best to still this protest. Said...
...trouble was not that Nominee Sinclair opposed the New Deal or was lukewarm to the Party, but that he had wrapped his long radical arms around the Roosevelt Administration in an embrace of deep political affection. The novelist who had never reached first base running on the Socialist ticket exclaimed: "Today's nomination is a victory not for me but for the people of California . . . and for the New Deal. We have been nominated as Democrats and we intend to function as Democrats...
...came as something of a jolt to the Empire last week that the King's youngest son should thus have plunged into the deep Balkans to find himself a bride...
Deepest gold mine in the world is the Robinson Deep in South Africa's Witwatersrand, whence comes more than half of present world gold production. The Robinson Deep has sunk an inclined 3-mile shaft to a vertical depth of 8,380 ft. At that depth miners sweat, stagger and topple in a temperature of 104°, a humidity of nearly 100. Working efficiency is less than 30%. With gold prices soaring and money to spend, the company asked Willis Haviland Carrier, Newark engineer, to plan the world's biggest air-conditioning plant. Last week, with plans drawn...
Enjoying evil for its own sake, the Captain reduces Brother Matthew to a state of misery by destroying his faith in God and man. He ferrets out Nephew Romney's deep tangled secrets, laying him bare and vulnerable, enjoys exposing the boy to a crass prostitute. Weasel-like, soft-footed, he discovers that his spinster sister's love letters are written by and to herself. He relishes the joke, pretends to sympathize, but uses the knowledge to get money out of her. Even the servants are not exempt from his influence...