Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Though her major target thus disappeared, Madam Secretary Perkins had many another serious fault to find with the steel code. She flayed its low pay and long hours so effectively that the steel code was sent back into conference for revisions. Fagged by her efforts and Washington's heat, Miss Perkins dropped out of public sight for a week to catch her breath at Newcastle, Maine. She planned to address the state Federation of Labor at Springfield this week before returning to her Washington office. Madam Secretary Perkins' office is on the seventh floor of the ugly Labor...
...messages to their wives who. waving and shrieking hysterically, could plainly see their men's faces. Codos & Rossi" flew on through the night and the third day, across Central Europe, Greece and the Aegean Sea. They skirted the coast of Asia Minor. A gasoline leak, wicked winds, intense heat and fatigue combined to make them choose a landing spot. Escorted by French Army Planes the Joseph LeBrix landed at Rayack near the Syrian seaport of Beirut. Unofficial distance from New York...
...airplane flight up the Nile's twisting 2,500-mi. length to meet the Johnsons. After an hour aloft, they fervently wished themselves back at Cairo. "I give you my word " wrote Mrs. Davison, "it was worse than any dream of torment Dante could ever have conceived. The heat stood a solid wall even ... at 10,000 feet, and if we tried a mere peep through windows our eyes were scorched and our heads swam. Of course, to add to the discomfort, it was rough as the dickens. . ." After two scorching days & nights, the weather turned cool and cloudy...
...Heat blanketed Henry Street in Manhattan's teeming lower East Side one day last week. Grubby babes clung to their moist mothers, sitting on the front stoops of dingy tenements. Urchins played in the street, shouting, sucking at violently colored and flavored sticks of ice from the pushcarts. All at once they perceived a handsome, golden-haired woman alighting at a red-brick house, No. 265. Some of the moppets ran up to help with her luggage. They had heard that she was coming, knew that she was Miss Hall-Miss Helen Hall -the new Head Worker...
...time in the first of Friday's events, the novice singles, one minute, three seconds, gave him the victory over W. H. Holcombe, Harvard Varsity bow oar, who caught a crab a few strokes from the finish line. Park took this race from the winners of the five preliminary heats on Thursday, which desposed of a record turnout for one event. His brother, T. L. M. Park captured the men's broad compromise battle in fine style. Holcombe started a favorite for the novice singles sprint, as he turned in remarkable time of 1:01 in the trial heat...