Word: flints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flint, Mich., last fortnight State Troopers bashed striking employes of Fisher Body Division of General Motors Corp. with clubs, arrested 23 men and two women. The strikers said they were angry because of wage reductions. The company maintained that no reductions had been made or contemplated. According to the strike committee, men's wages were cut on June 24 from $1 an hour to 40? and 50? an hour, women's wages in the upholstery department from 65? to 75? an hour to $1.12 and $1.20 per day. According to the company, changes in design and construction...
...country and will be making retail deliveries early in July. Austin men say that dealers have ordered 183,000 Austins, priced at $445 F. O. B. Butler (Ford roadster, $435; Ford coupé, $495, F. O. B. Detroit; Chevrolet roadster and touring, $495; Chevrolet coupé, $565, F. O. B. Flint, Mich.; Durant coach sedan, $725, F. O. B. Detroit...
Your Jan. 13 issue in listing the cars exhibiting at the New York Auto Show omitted the newest member of the General Motors line. Marquette (lowest priced model $990 F. O. B. Flint, Mich.) was introduced June 1, 1929 by the Buick Motor Co. Since that time approximately $23,000,000 have been invested by motorists in new Marquette cars...
City of Sin? Sodom, so wicked that the Lord rained brimstone and fire upon it, was thought found by Father Mallon of the Pontifical Bible Institute of Jerusalem, on the plains of Jordan. A few vases, flint instruments, broken pottery, the ruins of an ancient wall were found, all covered with a thick layer of ashes. The evidence pointed to inhabitancy during the Bronze...
...layers deep, one dead city atop its dead predecessor. Out of the dusty ruins were dug instruments for which the diggers could find no obvious use. The peasants thereabout still living in a partly Stone Age condition solved the difficulties by exhibiting some of their own utensils of husbandry-flint-pronged threshing boards, wooden water jars, grain cradles, grinding stones. The relics, some of them beautiful in glaze and form, with an estimated age of 4,000 years, point to an ample trade with Egypt. They go automatically into the possession of the Turkish Government...