Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...truckloads of grim-faced men armed with garden tools loan around the grounds, stop at a piece of bare ground and more or less furiously attack the stubborn soil, the inn grins impishly This impasse has gone on for several weeks now, with neither side-the Maintenance Department nor Nature-willing to concede an inch. Gradually, frustration is showing on the men's faces, and only daily pep talks from the foremen prevent their morale from snapping...
...last week a coal crisis existed only in headlines. When 340,000 Appalachian miners first "abstained from work" April 2, big stocks were above ground; 28% of the U. S. soft-coal industry was still free to operate. But last week John Lewis ordered a shutdown May 4 in fields outside the Appalachians, unless the Appalachian operators capitulate. He likewise threatened to close down what is left of Pennsylvania's sick hard-coal industry, unless its operators quickly came to terms in separate negotiations...
...Wanamaker department store were five designs for nifty, economical commuters' houses which won $1,000 apiece in the biggest low-cost house competition yet held. Each was planned to be within the reach of a family man earning $2,100 a year, yet each had two acres of ground and plenty of character. Explanation : sponsors were four fervent back-to-the-land organizations whose lucid publicist is Author George Weller of Homeland Foundation. For reducing cost factors which the ARCHITECTURAL FORUM found irreducible by the individual, they postulated cooperative buying of land by "homestead associations" of several families...
...clear about $50 a year. Thinks Grade: "De gover'ment's got no business a-payin' out relief money and a-givin' WP and A jobs to farmers. . . . If 'twas fixed right dey'd make all de livin' dey need from de ground." What worries her most is having had to drop out of the burial association which costs 25? each time a member dies. Haunted by the prospect of a pauper's grave, Gracie prays: "Please keep death off till I get out'n dis shape...
City audiences may be fascinated by Monogram's conception of Manhattan. The elevateds, apparently by Lionel Toys, are particularly noteworthy. The dialogue is equally rickety. Sample line (by an urchin seeing his first Christmas tree): "It's the kind that grows out of the ground...