Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fashioned financial and social policies split the coalition between his Anti-Revolutionary Party and the progressive Catholics. After a month of Cabinet stasis Queen Wilhelmina's Favorite was back again with a museum collection of Ministers. The Catholics and Socialists promptly sent them back to gather more dust...
...Press dispatch told with unhistorical assurance of a silver coffin from a shrine in Etshinhuro, Mongolia, which was carried with pomp and fire crackers through the Great Wall on its way to a hiding place in Western China far from Japanese raiders. Inside, insisted the A. P., was the dust of the Great Khan, the "perfect warrior and the Scourge...
...Howard Schultz Anders of Philadelphia hates dirt and dust. He has spent 50 of his 72 years chasing it out of city streets. In the early 1900s Dr. Anders induced the Pennsylvania State Legislature to pass an antispitting law. He also forced the Philadelphia transit company to replace dirty plush streetcar seats with clean, bare benches. In 1919, during a local row over politics in the street-cleaning system, he raised a dust storm with his carpet-beating outburst: "Dust is pulverized poison and we have seen in Filthadelphia too much drifting into damned deferential silences...
...smoke and hot ash to a distance of five or six miles. The smoke pall was so thick in Perryville that lamps had to be lighted in the daytime. The earth rumbled ceaselessly. Coast Guard commanders in the Bering Sea reported ashes falling 35 miles from the mountain, volcanic dust 100 miles away. In Unalaska, 350 miles from the volcano, chandeliers shook...
There are two fundamentally different kinds of businessmen. One kind meets trade recessions by keeping his prices high, letting his goods gather dust on the shelves, laying off his employes, arid concentrating his efforts on hoping business will come back. The other takes the risk of cutting his prices, and often succeeds in wooing back vanishing trade, while he keeps his employes on the job, his goods in circulation, his ledgers in the black. To the first school the Eastern railroads of the U. S. (except for Daniel Willard's Baltimore & Ohio) have largely adhered through Depression...