Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Distilling Co. employes are organized into a company union and an American Federation of Labor union. Last August an A. F. of L. man, employed as an engineer, was discharged for letting a vat of mash boil over. Fellow unionists protested. The man was rehired to haul ashes. This pretext led to a union v. union strike, which in turn led to a shutdown at the distillery last month. Strikers promptly threw a line of pickets around the plant. The campaign was getting along nicely, in spite of zero weather, when a busload of scabs suddenly broke through...
...miles southwest of Munich, on the fringe of the Bavarian Alps, lie the twin villages of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The houses have brightly painted walls. The inns have tiled stoves in the dining rooms. Woodcutters in green felt hats, puffing pipes that reach down to their waists, use oxcarts to haul pine logs down the snowy mountain roads. Last week the wintry quiet of Garmisch-Partenkirchen was pleasantly shattered by an event which mystified the woodcutters as much as it delighted the innkeepers by accounting for the presence in the town of some 50,000 visitors, including Realmleader Hitler himself...
...tipple at the coal mine. And that's the easiest work they is. boys' work. I hed to give that up. Now I cain't hardly lug a bucket of water, and that not fur. I cain't hardly git up on a chair and haul window blinds. I give myself 'bout a year. I know I'm goin'. I'm not foolin' myself. But there's no use cryin' 'bout that now, is they...
Oceanographic Institution, was back in its snug port after a month at sea, bringing a rich haul of new knowledge about the submerged land off the Atlantic Coast - harvest of an idea that the chunky, 50-year-old geology professor at Princeton University and his associates had been working on for three years. Dr. Field had no thought of learning anything new about the surface topography of the sea bottom. A great number of soundings with the old-fashioned line & sinker, more recently with the echo sounder, have disclosed that contour to oceanographers. Dr. Field wanted to know what...
...mutiny and shipwreck, on the desolate coast of Lilliputia. The tiny citizens bind his arms and feet with threads. The fierce police chief arrives in a nutshell armored car. The fire department of Lilliputia runs a hose into his mouth. An army of tanks hitched to a gigantic platform haul him to the capital where the idiot king of Lilliputia is presiding over a special session of the Senate convened to dispose of Dr. Gulliver...