Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glassmaking furnaces were closed down in any of our plants. No curtailment in operations was made in our window-glass plants at Shreveport, La. and Charleston...
Illness and impaired vision have compelled Rudolph Blaschka, 80 year old glass-worker of Hosterwitz, Germany and creator of the whole of Harvard's collection of glass flowers, to cease active work. This means that the collection has probably reached its final form, the annual report of Oakes Ames '98, Director of the Botanical Museum, disclosed Saturday...
Attracted chiefly by the glass flowers, more than 200,000 visitors a year inspect the displays in the museum...
Meanwhile Prisoner Bernstein has had a far happier lot in jail than most political prisoners. His clothes and laundry are sent in from his home, his food from restaurants. He is allowed a glass of beer daily and a full bottle of burgundy on Sundays, permitted to receive the London Times, and TIME, a privilege few free Germans enjoy. His wife, whose passport was at first seized, later restored, may visit him for 20 minutes each Wednesday, other prisoners' wives having the same privilege...
...Washington, Administrator John David Biggers sent out the first batch of his 85,000,000 unemployment census report cards. In Toledo, Mr. Diggers' Libbey-Owens-Ford announced plans to close down four of its plants (Reason: oversupply of glass), turning 900 workers into 900 unemployed...