Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of President Pelley's 400 employes-half in Washington, half out-are busy keeping tabs on the country's 1,800,000 freight cars. One of their chores is to gather vital statistics of car loadings. The most notable industrial achievement of President Pelley's two years has been the so-called "average" plan for settling car hire between railroads and reducing profitless hauling and switching of empty cars. The A.A.R.'s car service division referees this activity, which now saves U. S. roads $12,000,000 a year...
...Morgan should go, many lovers of TVA would be grieved, for when he started in 1933, he was able to gather an unusually able engineering staff about him both because of his personal reputation and because Depression had deprived most engineers of jobs. Many of his staff could be counted on to quit with him and they could not be replaced. More important, however, if Arthur Morgan should quit, those persons would be grieved who would like to see the breach between the utilities and the New Deal healed. If Mr. Lilienthal should quit those would be grieved who would...
Commissioned to write a 100,000-word book on India, Yeats-Brown gave himself six months to do it in, 20,000 miles by airplane, elephant, train, car, horse to gather his impressions. At the outset he confessed himself stumped by India's size (350,000,000 pop.), unwilling to guess the answers to such problems as India's 24,000 births a day (world's highest birth rate, which has increased the population, in spite of the world's highest death rate, 34,000,000 in the last decade), five or six million beggars...
Lady Hart Dyke has 21 acres of mulberry bushes, tended by partly disabled War veterans. Her worms eat 300 lb. of leaves daily, are kept in trays in the biggest rooms of the castle. The girls who gather the cocoons and reel off the silk fibres are sent abroad for training. Britain's only commercial raw silk producer has four reeling machines which turn out some 20 lb. of raw silk per week...
...heebie-jeebies, then by a Russian who wants to wrestle, lastly by a party of raiders from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A night in jail, however, softens up the haughty Kirbys. By the following evening the course of true love is smoothed and Grandpa is able to gather his family and friends and in-laws-to-be about his dinner table, amiably ask his customary benediction...