Word: herding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sosua, backed by a bankroll of more than $1,000,000, things are somewhat better. The colonists have a good-sized dairy herd and some hope of raising cash crops on the excellent land. But Sosua, too, has problems. The colony has been expensive, unproductive to date, and is now in the throes of reorganization. There are 124 unmarried colonists, only twelve unmarried women, and around the settlement stand frantic signs saying "We Want Women." The non-Spanish-speaking refugees are continually getting into small squabbles with the Dominicans. The colony needs more farmers and fewer intellectuals. Above...
Supplies are sometimes a long time coming, in China. Last month Dr. Lim received equipment and materials for a vaccine plant which the American Bureau had sent a year ago. Dr. Lim now plans to pasture a herd of ponies for serums, manufacture 200,000 doses a day of vaccine for typhoid, cholera, bubonic plague and tetanus toxoid...
...feet long, was dug in the yard of the Governor's mansion, in what had once been a rose garden. Sixteen groups dished up the food at the rate of almost 200 plates a minute. The Governor himself had shot the buffalo, from a privately owned Texas herd. (Said he: "... They had the whole county out to watch. . . . They were there to laugh when they thought I would miss my shot as the thundering herd of wild buffalo rushed by ... so they had a crack shots-man there to kill the wild beast in case I only...
Organizing workers overnight, riding herd on the mills, S. W. O. C. by the following year had won its first big triumph. U. S. Steel signed a contract, and the bars were down. Dozens of smaller companies followed. Only die-hards of "Little Steel" (Bethlehem, Youngstown, Republic, National) stood out, still...
With 1,385 hotels and 143,000 rooms to offer, Chicago became the white herd's favorite watering hole. Its Jumbo was the Stevens, "World's Largest Hotel." Built in 1927, the Stevens has 3,000 rooms (one man could spend eight years in it without twice sleeping in the same room), 1,500 employes, 40 miles of carpets. Overbuilt and overcapitalized (cost: $28,000,000) by its promoters, Ernest J. and Raymond W. Stevens, the Stevens began to totter in the first tremors of 1929. Panicky, the Stevens brothers began sluicing funds from their father...