Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Amoskeag mills at Manchester, New Hampshire, once the largest, textile unit in the world, formerly employed eight thousand men. Terribly hit by the depression and southern competition, the mills were just getting back on their feet when labor troubles set in. Now only fifteen hundred of those eight thousand are being employed, by Pacific Mills, and Lewis says he is out to help these fifteen hundred. If he really has the interest of the workers at heart, let him regard the deserted buildings of the once great. Amoskeag Company as a grim reminder of what can happen...
What made us particularly hot under the collar was the chief's implication that the Court caused the Mississippi flood. That would be a pretty tall order for even fifteen not-so-old men, and it seems to us the kind of thing that no mortal has been able to accomplish since the signal failure of King Canute, hundreds of years...
...were strolling along wondering if fifteen justices would be enough to keep the Hudson from flooding when nine couldn't tame the Mississippi, when a shifty looking automobile slithered up to the curve beside us. It was the kind of a car that proves that she doesn't drive a Dusenberg because she had a chauffeur, a footman, and a lapdog to drive it for her. With proper ceremony she descended, but her triumphal sweep through the bronze portals of the store was cut short by two ex-Grand Dukes, clad in full regimentals, who guarded and barred...
...author of many of his scripts, and together they get involved in the murder of a wealthy man and the disappearance of his famous diamond. Somehow murder on shipboard is a favorite sport with Hollywood producers, and this one leads Philip and Phyllis in and out of staterooms for fifteen torturous minutes...
...wigs step up to the microphone sponsored by an undergraduate organization, the radio has become a real power in the university, not just a subject for turned-up academic noses. The contributions to political thought by such men as Professor Marx and Professor Holcombe may be limited in the fifteen precious minutes alloted them, but their words, compared to the usual radio palaver, should strike the public as gems of purest ray screne...