Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called a protest strike, that 3,000 men swarmed out of the plant. The Goodyear strike was an unauthorized "outlaw"' disturbance, perpetrated principally by WPA groups and non-Goodyear people, many admittedly former rubber workers, now unemployed in this era of the more abundant life...
...Steel in September, Chairman O'Mahoney tried to reassure them that, so far as he was concerned, the inquiry would be no witch hunt, no kangaroo court. Said he: "I think most people, regardless of their economic views, realize that we have gone into a new era and that we have to find some new rules. But I think they want to go about the job without resorting to punitive tactics. . . . It is a question whether the educated opinion of the American people can preserve democracy in Government and business...
Though the Victorian era has long been considered smug and lacklustre, readers of Victorian lives may yet decide that Victorianism turned out as many unconventional characters as Prohibition did drinkers...
...twelve-week festival was a brand new work by owl-faced Old-timer Jerome Kern entitled Gentlemen Unafraid. With a Civil-Wartime libretto carpentered by the experienced hands of Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II, Gentlemen Unafraid maintained the best swashbuckling, love & war traditions of the Herbert era...
Back in radio's early crystal-set era, gloomy prophets spooked telephone stockholders, predicting that the wireless voice would make wire lines relics of an obsolete communications system. Few prophets foresaw that radio would vastly increase the use of wire services as radio pipelines, and nobody would have guessed the telephonic congestion caused by two radio riddle programs last week...