Word: equality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Llewellyn Lewis who made his C.I.O. a primary force in the affairs of the nation, fought two great automobile strikes, unionized the greater part of the U. S. steel industry for the first time in history and in a twelvemonth built a labor organization the equal of the old A. F. of L. in size and power, its superior in leadership. The measure of his achievement is that his two runners-up were his two visa-vis : 1) Chairman Myron Charles Taylor who without a blow being struck negotiated for the unionization of great U. S. Steel Corp...
...even Mr. Caddow, however, would maintain that a cheap young run-of-the-wine-press California claret is the equal of Château Mouton Rothschild 1929. What he does think and many sound wine critics concede is that in its class California wine does not have to bow to the snobbish claims of foreign wine. And even connoisseurs are no longer so outraged as they were once when they heard cheap foreign wines selling at $1 or so a bottle compared with California wine selling for $1 or so a gallon. In short much of the vin ordinaire...
...item was that after laymen have learned to regard protons, electrons and other charged particles as nothing but electricity, the physicists adduce the neutron which has no charge and therefore cannot exist-although a stream of neutrons will knock the living daylights out of a block of paraffin. With equal politeness Professor Andrade replied, declaring in effect that it was really not the physicists' fault if atoms behaved in a way not explainable "in anthropomorphic terms of likes and dislikes," that physicists were not trying to be confusing but to obtain the best possible description of what Lord Rutherford...
...Airmail rates have been drastically low ever since the notorious air mail contract cancelations of 1934 and the abortive Air Mail Act it produced. Airlines are generally considered a heavily subsidized industry, actually are barely so, since sales of stamps almost equal Post Office payments to the lines ($12,000,000 for domestic lines for the fiscal year...
...will get $15,000 for his 15 lectures. For the 23 lectures on Sinclair Lewis' crowded schedule, he will get $23,000. Although their agent makes the rates of such headliners as Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt and Aldous Huxley a carefully guarded secret, their net return will probably not equal the $33,000 that Dale Carnegie will be paid for his 55 inspirational talks in 55 towns...