Word: equality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Primary season reached a peak this fortnight, with ten States going to the polls within eight days. In none except Tennessee (see p. 13) was heat generated equal to Kentucky's. The source of Kentucky's heat was a pitcher of ice water. For the closing hours of the race between Governor "Happy" Chandler and Majority Leader "Dear Alben" Barkley for the latter's Senate seat were enlivened by the "poisoning" of Candidate Chandler (TIME...
...novels and works of nonfiction, exclude children's books and reprints, which are included in TIME's list. Last month in the book department of San Francisco's Emporium, Ferdinand sold five times as many copies as The Yearling, although its total national sales are not equal to those of the ten national best-sellers...
...great natural resources - cotton, coal, iron - shown in map, are its forests, its cheap labor, found everywhere. Extent of forests is implied by the pulp mills. Small figures under the symbols for pulp and textile mills represent the number of important mills in each State. Those under the cigarets equal total production in 1936 (latest figure...
...first contract with a Hearst paper in New York City (Mirror), the Newspaper Guild last week signed a one-year contract with TIME Inc., covering 350 employes of TIME, LIFE, FORTUNE, ARCHITECTURAL FORUM and the MARCHES OF TIME (radio and cinema). Some provisions: five-day, 40-hour week, with equal time off for overtime; severance pay of one and one-half week's peak salary for each six months of service up to a maximum of $5,000. Minimum wages: $20 a week for untrained office boys; $35 for darkroom assistants, $45 for cataloguers, $50 for proofreaders...
...base of a hill, between a dense woods and the River Scheldt in Flanders, the battle of Fontenoy was fought. From foggy morning to midafternoon the French Army (with Irish and Scottish allies), commanded by Marshal Maurice de Saxe, and an equal English force (aided by Dutch and Hanoverians), commanded by the Duke of Cumberland, engaged in confused and bitter slaughter. About noon, the English infantry broke through the French centre, obtained a foothold within the disorganized French lines, formed a hollow square against which French cavalry charged repeatedly in vain. When the English were nearly exhausted, de Saxe ordered...