Word: handly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clough, who joined the company 33 years ago as sales manager, is still partial to high-pressure sales-technique. Also partial to good employe relations, he is generally popular with Abbott's 1,639 workers. They are about half as numerous as the rats Abbott always has on hand for experiment. Last week it was perhaps a good omen for Abbott's stock issue that a rat named Friday 5 #3 gave birth to 18 young, an Abbott record...
Early in this text-&-camera picture of contemporary life in the cotton States. Erskine Caldwell observes: "The South has always been shoved around like a country cousin. It buys mill-ends and wears hand-me-downs. ... It is that dogtown on the other side of the railroad tracks that smells so badly every time I he wind changes." Mindful of the "bad smells"* that have come from the South recently, and with an avowed pro-underdog bias. Author Caldwell and Photographer Bourke-White went down to look things over. After a year and a half of investigation they returned with...
Case Histories: Arnold Berry, Negro field hand and tenant farmer on the Teacher Plantation near Wilson. Ark.. gets 75? a day ("Not seventy-five cents every day in the year, but seventy-five cents a day when there is something for him to do"), earns less than $200 a year, sinks annually $30 or $40 deeper in debt to the plantation store, is of course forbidden to leave the place until the debt is paid off. He considers himself lucky, however, "that he is a tenant on the Teacher Plantation instead of being a tenant on the [adjoining] Harris...
John Sanford, white Georgia native, 27 years a sharecropper on various Emanuel County farms, once "made enough to buy two beds, half-a-dozen chairs, a dresser, a washstand, and the kitchen stove. An-other time he made enough to buy cheaply a second-hand automobile. The furniture has lasted, except for three of the chairs; the automobile did not last. He does not own anything else, except a change of clothes and a few odds and ends. His wife cuts his hair; he pulls the children's teeth when they begin to bother." Last year he made...
Harvard's 15-0 win over Davidson, on the other hand, did little to lead the team along the road of progress. In the mud and sloppiness of last Saturday holding the ball was simply a liability, and Harvard kicked just as often as they got it, waiting all the time for the breaks...