Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vandalia, Ill., a missing steel bridge over the Kaskaskia River was found in a junkyard, whither it had been carted after dismantling by a dealer who said he bought it from a nearby farmer...
...south. Through softer ice the freighters Frontenac and Peter White pushed ahead of the others out of Whitefish Bay and crossed Lake Superior to Duluth. They passed the W. D. Rees, eastbound from Superior with the first 1937 grain cargo, 200,000 bu. of rye for Peoria, Ill. distilleries. The Great Lakes shipping season, expected to be the biggest since Wartime, had begun...
While Sit-Down critics throughout the land observed with ill-concealed satisfaction that lawlessness breeds lawlessness, Pennsylvania's New Dealing Governor Earle started an investigation, cried: "The bloodshed at the Hershey plant was a disgrace to the Commonwealth. The blame lies directly on the sheriff of the county. . . . The State police will not be used to suppress union labor...
Lewis Cautions. With this temper among men, it was natural that many should grumble that the Chrysler settlement was a defeat for labor. It was a defeat, however, not so much for Leader Lewis as for an ill-advised strike spirit in the plants which had forced his hand. Night after the settlement he addressed a crowd of 25,000 unionists jamming Detroit's State Fair Coliseum and made it plain that it was time for hotheads to give up blundering into strikes for which their responsible leaders were not ready. First, however, his aides warmed up the crowd...
...Robert Wadlow of Alton, Ill. was at the last moment persuaded to exhibit his hulking 8 ft. 7 in. in his first public appearance. Thus in addition to long and long-memoried 8 ft. 6 in. Jack Earle of El Paso, Tex. Ringlings' is still able to boast THE TALLEST HUMAN BEING SINCE THE DAWN OF CREATION...