Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week the two great houses of U. S. Labor meet in convention-the American Federation of Labor at Cincinnati, the Congress of Industrial Organizations at San Francisco. In the 59th year of A. F. of L., the fourth year of C. I. O., the two in sum are bigger and stronger than ever. Between them they claim 8,000,000 members, or about one in five U. S. workers. As the largest organized economic minorities in the U. S., they have an enormous stake in the democracy in which they live, a corresponding duty to the People of whom...
...magnificent game, the Yankees, with a magician at every position, had nosed out the Reds, 2-to-1. From then on, it was a rout. They won the Series in four straight games (including a two-hit shutout by ailing Monte Pearson). They won the Series for the fourth year in a row-a feat that not even nonpareils had ever accomplished before...
...Scrap. Fourth quarter steel earnings will not be as lush as production because sheets will be going at June's cut prices until Jan. 1. And there is a menacing squeeze in raw materials. September pig iron production rose only 12% because blast furnaces for making pig iron are in worse shape than furnaces for smelting steel ingots. Quick to profit from the scarcity of pig (price $22.50) have been the railroads and other sellers of its rival raw material, scrap, who have put the price up to $26 a ton (Aug. 31 price: $15.25). At $26, sheet mills...
...Tulsa, Okla., Rosanner Speights, 66, married Ulysses Grant Sisney, 90. It was her seventh marriage, his fourth. Said the bride: "A preacher once asked me why I got married so much. I told him the Good Lord kept taking...
...remaining fourth-the majority of which Authors Mock & Larson were the first to comb-told a true story, fascinating both as history and as a civics lesson, doubly absorbing in relation to the present times...