Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempt to end the wage differential between Aluminum Co.'s Northern and Southern plants (a 63?-per-hour base rate in Pennsylvania as against 43? in Tennessee). The union's offer to arbitrate was turned down flat by the company. At week's end after William Green dispatched his personal aide, Francis T. Dillon, to investigate, the Alcoa local voted to return to work, and the local's president Fred Wetmore resigned for "the good of the Union"- meaning that A. F. of L. thought he was too friendly with C.I.O. for a Southern Labor leader...
Into the flag-decked station rolled the royal train. King George in the dress uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, with the green ribbon of the Order of the Thistle, stepped out followed by Queen Elizabeth in forget-me-not blue, his two excited little daughters. Elizabeth & Margaret Rose, in strawberry pink coats. Louis Stewart Gumley, Edinburgh's Lord Provost stepped forward, tendered the city's keys to King George on a red satin cushion, bade him welcome to his "ancient and hereditary kingdom of Scotland...
Next evening, to the oak-paneled throne room of Holyroodhouse, where Bonnie Prince Charlie held court 200 years ago, flocked 500 of Scotland's socially elect to the first royal court Scotland had seen in 34 years. On guard was the Royal Company of Archers in green cloth uniforms embroidered with golden thistles. The King now in his scarlet, gold & blue uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Scots Guards, but still with the Order of the Thistle, the Queen wearing a gold brocade gown and a diamond-&-ruby tiara * received over 200 Scottish debutantes who were thus spared...
...other Croatian miners in the U. S. standing with heads bowed while a Franciscan priest, posed by St. Nicholas' pastor, kneels to invoke God's blessing on their church. For the side altars Vanka painted a Crucifixion and Pieta in cold blues and black, with green lightning. His model for the figure of Christ was a strapping Negro mill worker. It was well toward the end of May before the final murals complementing these on the back walls took shape and made the women on their way out after mass stop and weep and burn candles...
Near Hugo, Colo., when Farmer Hutchins went to bed one evening last week, three-inch green shoots covered his 50 acres, promising a 20,000-lb. yield of beans. At sundown the next day every single sprout had been devoured down to the ground, below the ground. The land was almost out of sight beneath a dusty- grey, endless horde of grasshoppers, plodding inexorably onward, eating every shred of living vegetation. There were dozens and scores of 'hoppers to the square foot, millions to the acre, trillions to the county. Government scientists and reporters crunched around the countryside...