Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...welfare of the 2,000,000 women factory workers† held the convention's interest. Illinois' Industrial Hygienist Milton Henry Kronenberg reminded his colleagues that women "are less resistant to dust, fumes and gases [than men], more susceptible to poisons, monotony and fatigue. . . . Married women are a particular problem. The stillbirth percentage is greater among factory workers. Infant mortality is higher. Abortions are higher." His recommendation to prevent all this: pre-employment physical examinations, followed by frequent periodic checkups, prohibiting females in employments involving exposure to lead and benzol; proper seating, with back rests; prohibiting women from working...
...last year's show, New York carried off most of the honors, this time with a soft-textured nude by George Grosz, a characteristic frozen-faced, deep green Landscape with Fisherman by Doris Lee, Isaac Soyer's indulgent School Girls and Robert Philipp's Dust to Dust, which won honorable mention at the Carnegie International last autumn (TIME, Oct. 25), showing bowed, blackrobed, firmly painted figures before an open grave, against a dull rainscape. There was no outstanding piece of sculpture like Carl Hallsthammar's Venus in Red Cherry of last year, but the exhibition introduced...
...outside of Italy, the new Italian school of concert composers never raised enough dust to make a critic sneeze. And the Italians themselves obstinately continued to prefer their Toscas, Pagliaccis and Cavalleria Rusticanas...
...bumper crop of some 13,000,000 bales and already have a carryover of nearly that much. Last fortnight cotton prices slumped to all-time lows, since then have partially recovered- mainly on rumors of crop-damage from heavy rains in the cotton belt, minor floods in the dust bowl. Last week, spot cotton in New Orleans sold for 8.34? a lb. above the price the week before, but well below the 1933-37 level. While 1938 exports are up slightly from last year, U. S. cotton mills have cut production and world consumption for this season is down...
...sheeped" out of existence, as sheepherders brought their huge herds from dried-up northern ranges to graze on land that had been sacred to cattle. Cattle, said the cowboys, spread out in family groups to graze. Sheep followed each other, were bunched by the herder, tramped the range into dust, with the result that the next rain washed off the topsoil instead of bringing up fresh grass. Cattlemen had tried violence, but after a rancher in the Tonto Basin was hanged for killing two sheepherders, they gave it up. They tried cunning, stampeded wild horses into herds of sheep...