Word: handedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Byrum Gibson and Claude Chambers, prior to Repeal, were indicted in North Carolina for conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act. Both had been convicted of similar charges before. Chambers had even pleaded guilty to the present charge but had not been sentenced. After Repeal a Federal Judge in North Carolina...
Like typhoid, the germs of amebic dysentery may be spread through water contaminated by sewage. But when Chicago belatedly reported a full-fledged dysentery epidemic as A Century of Progress was closing wiseacres assumed that the second city in the land had up-to-date sanitation and therefore the germs...
Pennsylvania has completed electrification of its four track line from New York through Philadelphia to Wilmington (118 mi.). From Public Works Administration it borrowed $77,000,000 to carry the job on to Washington (another 108 mi.) and to embark on the greatest equipment-buying spree in the history of...
Such views did not harmonize with those of the President who at the start had no intention of rooting CWA permanently in his program. At the present rate of expenditure CWA would cost $2,000,000,000 a year, enough to wreck even his open-handed plans of U. S...
John Jacob Raskob rose from a meal in a little Sonora, Tex. restaurant, handed the waitress a $20 bill. "Keep the change," said he.