Word: home
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strike against relief! It's fantastic!" (Columnist Arthur ("Bugs") Baer cracked: "Mutiny on the bounty.") He threatened arrest for anyone who sought to deprive others of WPA's benefits. He filled gaps in WPA's skilled ranks with qualified applicants from the city's home-relief lists, and by shifting skilled non-unionists from project to project. At the unionists he snorted: "If they'd all quit, we'd be tickled to death...
Power Politics. Should Congress shut up shop and go home without passing any new neutrality legislation this summer, the previous legislation-minus "cash & carry"-will still stand. If the fight over neutrality laws is too long and too futile, a growing disgust may lead Congress and the people to wash their hands of the whole business and fall back on old-fashioned international...
...manufacturer of an extensive line of respirators, decontamination bins, asbestos clothing and safety lamps. "How Many Closets for An Air-Raid Shelter?" asks a maker of chemical toilets who advises everyone to write for his free booklet, Sanitation in Air-Raid Shelters. For protection against fiery thermite bombs home-owners are urged to use Kimoloboard. Other appliances recommended to the reader are Blackout Fabric and steel shutters for windows, first-aid kits, fire pumps...
...counteract the resulting sequestered existence, the wives of these men have decided to band together for their mutual amusement. . . . The symbol of the organization will be a question mark upheld by a pair of wings (worn upside down while the old man is at home...
...good deal bigger than most people suppose. Reprints, at 39? to $2.49, total at least 10,000,000 copies a year. Biggest sellers: Grosset and Dunlap and Garden City (about 3,000,000 each). Another 10,000,000 is added by the nonprofit-making National Home Library's "Jacket Library" (15? & 25?), Haldeman-Julius' Little Blue Books (5?), Whitman Publishing Co.'s 10? Woolworth items such as Snow White...