Word: feasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...urban centres. Toledo shut its poverty-stricken schools, sent 40,000 children home, wondered how it would care for 5,913 unemployed persons and their dependents besides. In Cleveland, 60,000 people dependent on direct relief saw little chance of getting it. Starvation, sickness were spectres at the Thanksgiving feast...
Such ear-slitting, said Eliot and Eleanor Clark last week, is no more painful than piercing for old-fashioned earrings. The rabbits are placid and happy, wear warm grey flannel pajamas, take vacations in Europe, occasionally feast on ice cream and cake...
Made head of a feast-or-famine business in 1929, Lewis Brown pulled it through the century's worst depression intact (only deficit: $2,829,000 in 1932). The New Deal's Monopoly Committee regarded J.M. under him as an example of enlightened management in Big Business; he was summoned to Washington at the beginning of Depression II to give his views to Franklin Roosevelt. Neatest trick of all, Johns-Manville has C. I. O., A. F. of L. and independent unions scattered through its plants, firmly opposes closed shop, is at present on good terms with...
...feast & famine industry is heavy engineering construction. Ordinarily it does not get started until the rest of U. S. industry is already going full blast, until corporations need new factories and feel flush enough to buy them. This year U. S. industry started its war boom only in September, but last week it found that it had already carried the construction industry along with...
...feast on good cheer, and good liquor to quaff, ' And forgetting our labors to sit down and laugh...