Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Houston, Texas last week, A.F. of L's Hotel and Restaurant Workers' Union demanded that proprietors of drive-in, curb-service restaurants pay their 300 waitresses more money, cover them up. "Those girls wear shorts or grass skirts, rain or shine." said the union's Jack Parm-ley. "Why, their clothing is next to noth-ing." He set a time limit, said he might then call a strike for a clothed shop...
Winnipeg. Despite a drizzling rain, the Queen ordered the top of their automobile lowered, smiled bravely though wetly during the 26-mile drive through Canada's wheat city. Dignitaries were warned against too hearty handshaking, for the King had pinched two fingers in a train door. It was Queen Victoria's Birthday-Empire Day-and the King, after listening to professions of loyalty broadcast from every colony and Dominion of the Empire, replied with his best speech of the trip...
...bought the turreted Potter Palmer house which occupies nearly a block on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive, hung it with Rembrandts and Christys (Howard Chandler), dubbed it the Bendix Galleries and lost it after paying $1,250,000 on its $3,000,000 purchase price...
...restless and tireless as Vincent ("Ben") Bendix. Mercurial but cold-eyed, many-sided in interest but direct in purpose, convivial but shrewd, he burst into the automotive industry nearly 30 years ago with the first practical self-starter. Today few U. S. automobiles drive the roads, few airplanes fly the skies, that do not have his gadgets in them: Bendix starters, radios, brakes, Stromberg as well as Zenith carburetors, Scintilla magnetos...
...point out that from 1922 to 1928 the U. S. population increased 9.1%; from 1930 to 1936 only 4.3%. Contracting with it, all private construction has fallen from a $9 billion annual business to $4 billions. If the New Deal chooses to take Mr. Hansen's tip, a drive for capital spending may take the form of housing...