Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...railroads use. The rest is due to restoration in 1935 of the 10% wage deduction originally made in 1932 and to recent wage agreements with the operating and non-operating unions. . . . The average revenue per ton-mile and per passenger-mile has steadily declined since 1921, until today railroads haul a ton of freight one mile for an average of less than a cent and carry a passenger a mile for less than two cents...
...more fundamental importance than these improvements is the promised over-haul in the duration-of loans system. There is an absurd contrast between the demand for books at Widener and the length of time it allows them to be borrowed, a month by a student and an indefinite period by an instructor. Hope is high that this old complaint will be satisfied by an administration which showed this week a truly friendly desire to serve...
Around Boothbay harbor and Wiscasset last week wormdiggers were working night and day to meet the demand of an unusually good fishing season. At low tide the diggers wade around in knee-deep mud, combing wrigglers to the surface with long-tined clam rakes. A lucky day's haul is 1,000 worms but the average is 500 or less, paid for by worm dealers at the rate of 75? per hundred. In night digging the men wear dazzling electric spot lights on their foreheads, and have a slightly greater advantage over the quarry, whose custom is to bask...
...powerful as prison executioners use in electric chairs, poured through him. Electric chairs use five amperes of electricity, X-ray machines only one-tenth of an ampere, and although that small unit rushed through him like straws blown by a tornado, sturdy Frank Brown had strength enough to haul his stiffened left hand away from the X-ray tube to tug at his right hand frozen to the metal. The current gripped his right hand also. Both hands began to burn and stink...
Readers will find Northwest Passage is as historically accurate as painstaking research could make it. But whether they will consider its author the best U. S. historical novelist is another matter. Author Roberts' contemporaries, though they may rate him higher than Walter Edmonds (Rome Haul), or Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind), will not give him a majority vote over James Boyd (Drums, Marching On, Long Hunt). Author Roberts' friends complain that he has never been given his due. However, the Chronicles of Arundel (Arundel, Rabble in Arms, The Lively Lady, Captain Caution) have sold more than...