Word: indus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their A. F. of L. charters, of attempting to set up a rival labor organization. Far from knuckling under, Committee for Industrial Organization leaders welcomed into their fellowship the stripling United Rubber Workers and United Auto Workers unions, announced that organizational drives in the rubber, automobile and textile indus tries would be pushed simultaneously with the steel campaign. As individuals they proclaimed their refusal to answer the A. F. of L. summons...
Last week was U. S. Life Insurance Week, the third that that statistical indus-try has celebrated. Its slogan: "The sooner you plan your future, the better your future will be." Its symbol: a black owl with the words BE WISE emblazoned on its breast. About $200,000 was spent in advertising to make U. S. citizens worry about death or old age, and thousands of insurance men gathered in hundreds of groups to cheer for the law of probabilities, foundation of all insurance...
...contribution to the advancement of the motion picture." In reply, the man who made The Birth of a Nation (1915) traced the history of the cinema industry in a recital that grew more & more dramatic until he finished by gulping back his tears and declaring that the cinema indus try was still the finest in the world. To the 900 banqueters, it was the Best Speech...
Britain's famed "thin red line" of Empire goes little farther than Quetta, lying beyond the Suliman mountains which wall off India's rich valley of the Indus. The vulnerable door in that wall is the Bolan Pass. With its back to the door is Quetta; beyond it, on the British railroad to the Afghan border, the forts of New Chaman and Pishin. This is the land of the fanatic, black-bearded Pathans. And at Quetta, to draw their teeth, are stationed a British division, the Indian Staff College, a Royal Air Force training school and Sir Alexander...
...Indian Britons, Quetta is a coveted assignment. The great heat of the Indus never reaches its plateau. Even in summer it is cool enough for polo. And in winter its thick clay houses can be kept warm. Surrounded by mountains, Quetta's plain is green with grapes and melons. Under British patronage the town has grown to 60,000, reared some fine Western buildings, drawn trade from southwestern Asia. And the Pathans keep life in Quetta from ever getting really dull. Last week, however, it was not the Pathans but the most disastrous earthquake in twelve years that picked...