Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Weirton Steel Company, which has been a mote in the eye of General Johnson and the Labor Board for several months, has come out flatfooted against the wage and union provisions of the NRA. It has not only forbidden its employees to organize for purposes of collective bargaining but it has discharged several of them for joining unions. Memoranda on the case, petitions and affidavits, have been circulating back and forth between the Federal Trade Commission and the Labor Board; the first actual response of the Administration has been the filing of a suit for injunction against these practises...
...farmers, the business men, the politicians, the farm laborers and factory workers, who made and were made by the development of the state. Beneath it all there is this theme: "Progress" results from the efforts of self-reliant, ambitious, ruthless men and women, those who keep an eye on the main chance and let nothing stand in their way; more kindly, less certain souls, who wish only to live and let live, are trampled beneath the feet of the climbers. But a day of reckoning comes: there is no Eden without the tree of the knowledge of right and wrong...
...pungent nor, neither clever nor erudite--but natural, and honest. His characters, too, give the illusion of verisimilitude, much more than do Faulkner's, though of course they suffer from the necessity of proving that existence is unpleasant and futile. Two novel devices, somewhat reminiscent of Dos Passons' "Camera Eye" and "Newsreels" are used by March to emphasize and reiterate his theme. "The Whisper" consists of dozen very short stories which interrupt the main narrative to state in parables the recurring motifs of the novel; "From the Diary of Sarah Tarleton" consists of excerpts from the self-book...
...business made exciting reading last week. Because for the corresponding week a year ago the bank moratorium was about to engulf the U. S. and most trade teetered close to a standstill, the weekly indices showed enormous gains. But even discounting that factor, anyone with half an eye could see that the usual spring rise was accelerating at more than a seasonal pace. Car loadings were 26.6% above last year, 5.4% above the week before and, for the first time, topped the corresponding week of 1932. Electric power output was 16.5% above 1933-largest weekly gain since the rise began...
...Eldora, Iowa, Hank Schafer, 83, slipped on the ice, fractured his hip. Long ago Hank Schafer was buried alive in a coal mine. Later he lost an arm and eye when he was blown into the air by a cannon. After that he was buried alive under two tons of clay. Next he fell 30 ft. off a cliff. Still later he was thrown by a horse and dragged through a barbed-wire fence. Then he fell from a speeding bobsled, fracturing his skull. At 80, he recovered from double pneumonia. At 81, he was downed by a paralytic stroke...