Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Idria's labor policy would never bag Labor votes for Politico Hoover. About 125 men (mostly Spaniards) work in the ground and in two plants where quicksilver is distilled from cinnabar ore. They toil seven days a week (with pay for overtime), get around $4 a day. live in hovels, pay 20? a pack for cigarets at a company store. Recently they raised a fund for Loyalist Spain, then split over disposition of the money. One group called in C. I. O. organizers, who last week called them out on strike for union recognition. Brother Theodore and associates declined...
...head of an old Connecticut family (Charles Waldron), a benevolent paternalist out to sell his factory because it has been unionized. To make a clean sweep, he decides to sell his farm as well. But when he agrees to sell it to a Nazi Bund for a "recreation ground," not only his family protests, but his long-dead forebears - along with Harriet Beecher Stowe and fiction's famed Harlot Moll Flanders - rise from their graves to remonstrate with...
...toughest tunnel, under the San Jacinto mountains, the engineers ran into inflows of ground water up to 15,800 gallons per minute. According to the superintendent on this job, "water pressures as high as 600 lb. per sq. in. caved in headings or brought down the arch; water had to be pumped out against an 800-ft. head through a shaft that was flooded repeatedly while the work was under contract. . . . Repeated relocation of portions of the tunnel were necessary." When the engineers finally holed through San Jacinto tunnel, they were calling it, with commingled irritation and pride...
Seeking Divorce. Sacha Guitry, 53, famed French actor-author; from his third wife, Cinemactress Jacqueline Delubac, 28; in Paris. To outwit the French divorce laws and prevent his wife from filing a countersuit on the ground that he left home, Guitry took up residence in the American Hospital...
...world," they separate. Michael writes his play, is rebuffed by Munich intellectuals, becomes a miner in the Ruhr. Then the book really gets creepy. A mysterious Russian, Iwan, appears, tempts Michael, is defeated ("I am stronger than he. I take him by the throat. I dash him to the ground"), and after making some political observations, Michael dies, murmuring "worker...