Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cars for the Classes. If cars for the masses are bread & butter to the Industry, cars for the classes represent the cream of the machine age. Polished instruments of beauty and precision, the high-priced models always draw the most pop-eyed crowds. Pierce-Arrow last year exhibited a special fully streamlined model called "Silver Arrow." This year nearly all Pierce-Arrows are Silver Arrows-in varying degrees. In its line of eights and two lines of twelves are models for every taste in streamlining, as well as strictly conventional models for the strictly conventional...
...collect carcasses, roll them out to Barren Island. There skinners pounce on horses and mules, cats with good fur. Horse hides make shoes, baseballs; cat hides which once became ladies' neckpieces, now vanish darkly into the Orient. Skinned carcasses are dumped in a big "digester," steamed to draw out fat. This is used for rough lubricating grease. Defatted remains are dried, ground up for fertilizer. Concessionaires pocket the profit...
Attempts will doubtless be made to draw analogies between this pact and the Franco-Russian alliance which began in much the same way in 1890 with the extension of commercial credits to Russia by France. The reasons, which led to the forming of the treaties certainly bear more than a superficial resemblance; in 1890 it was due to the break in Russo-German relations after the collapse of the Reinsurance treaty and today it follows the alienation of Russia by the acts of the Hitler government against Communism. Then Russia desired support in the Balkans; now she wants the assurance...
Almost as excited as their employers over an NRA code, newspaper workers have been busy forming local guilds since last August. Last week delegates from 30 guilds, proxies from 43 more, met in Washington to draw up a constitution and elect officers for the American Newspaper Guild...
...zest that are as much his hall-mark as his bright eyes, flowing mane and bourgeois mustache. Historians should find these volumes of a challenging usefulness; literary critics will rate them as above the average for a non-professional writer; plain readers, who will find them generally entertaining, may draw from them the conclusion that war is not hell for politicians...