Word: duringer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Social Security Board announced that for 30,165,694 U. S. wage earners on its rolls during 1937 average pay was $890 a year. Also last week, the House Ways & Means Committee published the names and salaries of some 50,000 wage earners who brought up that...
On California's highways during the last few years a tourist sometimes encounters a mysterious and appalling sight-thousands of jalopies, driven by hungry-faced men, bulging with ragged children, dirty bedding, blackened pots & pans. Hated, terrorized, necessary, they are migrant workers who harvest the orchards and vineyards, the...
Shenandoah. Huddled in a fold in the Pennsylvania hills, with bulbous Greek Catholic church domes rising over wooden houses, this once-prosperous anthracite town is rusty, dingy, mournful, too melodramatic to be desolate. The Shenandoah City Colliery, its windows broken, its stacks smokeless, is a wild ruin; Stief's...
During his "exile" in the U. S. (he returned to Paris two months ago), Elliot Paul wrote a novel, Concert Pitch, and spent much time studying U. S. labor. The result is The Stars and Stripes Forever. A strike novel laid in a one-man manufacturing town in Connecticut, it...
Healey's pitching and Gannett's hitting featured the contest. Allowing only one earned run and six hits, three of which were scratch, and walking two Lions, the big hurler's control was excellent. Gannett, hitting in hard luck during the spring trip, connected safely four out of six trips...