Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Such as: Railroad Signalmen, Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers & Helpers, Railway Carmen, Firemen & Oilers, Train Despatches, Clerks & Freight Handlers, Express & Station Employes. †The eight-hour work day was set by the Adamson Law (1916) under threat of a national rail strike...
...against increased food and raw material prices by an "Import Control Board"; 3) modernization and re-equipment of British industries under a "National Planning Board"; 4) postponement ("not repudiation") of Britain's War debt payments until the Mosley "reconstruction program" shall have been completed. Obviously the Conservative Sunday Express was justified in splashing out the manifesto under a derisive screamer: If I Were Prime Minister-By Sir Oswald Mosley. But observers noted that numerous features of the "Mosley program" correspond with Liberal Leader David Lloyd George's ideas of how to deal with Britain's economic crisis...
...blood-red camellias. The spirit of the music is modern: a waltz theme winds through it all. There is a jazz scene in the second act where saxophones, two pianos and a banjo are used. Unlike Traviata there are no set arias, duos or trios. The characters do not express themselves in formal, stilted song. More in the manner of Pelleas et Melisande, they talk back and forth naturally in the intimate, emotionalized musical speech for which Mary Garden has a particular genius...
...well as they had crossed their native Sahara. Their wily stubborness made them unpopular with the soldiery; they stampeded horses and cattle. Nevertheless they were tested systematically in desert service for several years. In 1860 some of them helped build the famed Butterfield Stage road. In 1863 a dromedary express was started from San Pedro (port for Los Angeles) to Tucson, but it failed...
...super-Wals were imported and sold to Stout D & C Lines for use on the Great Lakes. But the Department of Commerce, which requires similar performance of seaplanes and land-planes, found fault with the Dornier take-offs and landings, and refused the Super-Wals licenses for passenger and express service. The craft lie idle in Philadelphia. Noncommittal as to the fate of Dornier Corp. of America, General Motors President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. told the New York World last week: "Technical studies by our engineers thus far haven't justified going ahead with the commercial exploitation...