Word: handly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rdenas had been several months in office. In Mexico City, politicians were as amazed as their prototypes in Washington when they first realized that Lázaro Cárdenas, like Franklin Roosevelt, meant to fulfill his radical campaign pledges. The hitherto haphazard land division system passed into the hands of a nationwide Agrarian Administration whose officers, all pistol-toters, organized the peons into ejidols (collective farms), financed by the State's especially created National Bank for Ejidol Credit. Scarcity of water has always been the curse of Mexico, and the State began to erect numerous irrigation dams...
Early Riser Carter is an old hand at cockcrow broadcasting, has been doing Early Risers Clubs since 1932 for WIP (Philadelphia), WMCA (Manhattan). He was once as offensively cheery as his glad-voiced fellows. He invented Jim Grouch for use as a horrible example on such Pollyanna programs, decided only last month, after a night of insomnia, that Jim Grouch had the right...
...King motored over a series of bridge spans, viaducts and curving highways, came to a stop on a go-foot span. Below them rippled a narrow streamer of the St. Lawrence known as the International Rift, through which runs the U. S.-Canada boundary line. Each with his right hand clutching one grip of an enormous pair of shears, they snipped a gaily fluttering ribbon. The first Thousand Islands International Bridge, from Collins Landing, N. Y. to Ivy Lea, Ont., was officially open...
...than three times as many as ride each year on all the big U. S. railroads put together. Until this week no subway passenger had lost his life in a train crash in more than two years. Then one morning a closing car door caught a woman's hand as a local train started to move out of an east-side station. An excited passenger jerked an emergency stop lever. The train jammed to a halt. Into the rear of it banged another local that was coasting into the station. Toll: two deaths, injuries...
...Macy, James McCutcheon and James McCreery, Manhattan department stores, agreed to stop advertising as "silk" products which were not. Colt Shoes, Boston, promised to qualify the statement that Colt shoes are hand-lasted and keep feet healthy. Letellier-Phillips Paper Co. of New Orleans, the South's wastepaper dictator whose small competitors tattled, was ordered to cease and desist from maintaining a monopoly by intimidation and boycott of competitors...