Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hell. The morning after, Leader Barkley tried to continue his harmonious and efficient drive to put through final legislation. To Vice President Garner's desk he sent a memorandum outlining the order in which bills were to be considered. After disposal of a bill for peacetime exports of helium, Senator King was to be recognized to call up the District of Columbia Airport Bill. The Helium Bill was passed as Senator King sat near Leader Barkley. He rustled his papers and prepared to get up with the Airport Bill but was slow on his feet. New York...
...State police who were on hand at the request of Michigan's Governor Murphy, 800 U. A. W. unionists showed up outside the gates of the Ford plant. It was raining. As Ford workers passed they were handed soggy copies of the U. A. Worker headlined: FORD DRIVE GETS UNDER WAY. More rain bucketed down. Unionists scampered for shelter, wet but unharmed...
...women. They could withstand 58 units of light, whereas women could withstand only 55.1, and could recover in 5.55 sec. from glare which blinded women for 7.47 sec. Other tests indicated that men generally have quicker reactions, better hearing, better concentration when at the wheel, although women drive more slowly, distinguish colors better, have better vision from the corner of the eye. Quipped Safety Director Burton W. Marsh, who conducted the tests: "The ladies may not find it tactful to cite that men have higher blood pressure, because the men might say it's caused by women drivers...
...that coveys had been thinned by starvation and disease. But with the approach of the "Glorious Twelfth," traditional August opening of the shooting season, grouse were reported rising as thickly as ever. Last week on the moors thousands of beaters got into action with white flags, forming semicircles to drive the grouse over the concealed "butts" where shotguns waited to bring them plummeting into the purple heather...
...what they considered unwarranted pouncing by Policeman Connors that they threatened to bring him to grief by making sudden stops with their air brakes while he was following behind on his motorcycle. Standing joke in the region: "It's too bad Connors' own family don't drive, or he'd spend all his time arresting them and let the rest of us alone...