Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them. The 638 was not the engine my husband was killed on and was never a passenger engine, and as to my son being a highway laborer, that was a base lie, he was never on a highway in his life unless he drove over it.* He is a valued employee of the I. C. R. R. and my daughter is married to an official of the M. & O. R. R. Whoever gave you the information did not get it from me. I just want to tell you that I do not like one thing you said and please never...
...bedecked and smiling he was formally welcomed as he descended from the Houston at Honolulu on the Island of Oahu the following morning. Through flagwaving crowds he drove from the city, visited fishing villages, pineapple and sugar plantations, out to Schofield Barracks to lunch with Major-General Briant H. Wells, review 15,000 troops. That evening he dined at Iolani Palace with Governor Poindexter. At a great luau (native feast) he received the great men of the islands, was robed in a leather cape which made him a member of the island nobility, did not get away until midnight...
...Kansas, farmers last week were selling 200,000 head of cattle to the Government before they died on the hoof from thirst. In some places farmers drove their livestock into woodlots and cut down trees to give them leaves to munch. Travelers through southwestern Kansas reported what they mistook for a new oil boom. Everywhere drilling crews were working night and day driving wells for water...
...fresh pastures, others turned over to packers for slaughter. A train of Pullman cars was shunted into the yards to house strikebreakers. And 400 scabs, mostly boys from droughty farms eager to earn an honest penny at the risk of a broken pate, watered and fed the cattle, drove them under sheds and viaducts that offered some protection from the blazing sun. In a few days the yards were more than half empty. Thereafter Chicago's stock yard strike settled down into an ordinary labor struggle...
...service. His confidence by now completely shaken, he dropped his own serve to make the score 5-all. Both men won their serves until the score was 7-8 on Wood's. Again a footfault judge surprised him when the score was deuce. This time Wood drove out and McGrath had set & match...