Word: feed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over since have been chasing down after valuations. But municipal debt burdens will decrease slowly, while relief expenditures will increase as years go on. No new industry can take advantage of the idle labor force because of the prohibitive tax rate, and a collapse is inevitable. Then who will feed the workers, and who will pay the cities' defaulted obligations? The "transfer" of capital and labor is a process depending upon the mobility of the capital and labor force. The removal of several good sized cities will take a long time, and the shorter the time, the greater the pain...
Sworn in as a deputy, Shevlin has complete discretion over Jane Dale. He uses it to take her duck hunting, feed her peanuts, pay her fine when Judge Clummerhorn, as game warden, arrests her for shooting out of season. By the time they are on their way to be married in the one car that has been concocted out of the two wrecks, everything that can be done with the situation of two people stranded in a hick town has been done, effortlessly and good-humoredly, with excellent results as entertainment. If It's a Small World invites comparison...
...years as a trainer of racehorses for people like Bernard Mannes Baruch, Herbert Bayard Swope and Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt. Mary Hirsch as a small girl made a habit of keeping trainers' hours. She got up at dawn to watch the workouts, helped her father's stablemen feed the horses, grew to know as much about such matters as Max Hirsch himself. In 1931, when she finished school...
...paid him $1,500 per job, but jobs were scarce and, at 31, he had a wife and two children to support. They had been on his father-in-law's farm in Oklahoma for months because he lacked money to feed them. It occurred to him that some of the yarns he swapped with fellow pilots might make good reading. He had always been interested in writing, had conducted a lively correspondence with George Bernard Shaw. He decided to write an article about how it feels to be a test-pilot...
Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson (New York Daily News), longtime aviation enthusiast, read "Return to Earth," thought it showed writing ability, decided it was a shame that such a fine young man must risk his life to feed his family. He wired Author Collins, offered him a $100-per-week job as a newspaper columnist, writing about aviation...