Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Iron Rations. Among the first witnesses to testify were welfare workers from the nation's three greatest cities. They painted a doleful picture. Executive Secretary William Hodson of the Welfare Council of New York said that at least 800,000 were jobless in New York and that throughout the U. S. "the spectre of starvation faces millions of people." Executive Director J. Prentice Murphy of Philadelphia's Children's Bureau testified that 970.000 were out of work in his city, that people in some States would get no relief unless it came from the Federal Government. Executive Director Samuel...
...point of service." A prime Willard maxim: "Be a good neighbor." Farmer boys and girls up and down his line get settings of eggs. Officials are sent to make friends with local shippers. And in 1927 "Uncle Dan'' put on a 23-day pageant ("The Fair of the Iron Horse") outside Baltimore to show what his road had accomplished in its century of existence...
...never stopped to look inside themselves, to know why things happened as they did. When the country was first young, when men fought with nature for his life and his home there was no time for this analysis, which paralyses the will. Later when nature was harnessed to the iron wheels of industry there was still no time for such thoughtful folly, because one man was busy fighting another for the power which was generated by his own inventions. First were the days of Boone and of the pioneers, who sacrificed everything for adventure and for virgin land crept west...
...hands, including the boss. They have very sweetly allowed us to camp in the lee of the factory, by the scanty water supply. The factory itself is not very impressive, consisting mostly of gunny sacking spread over a slight framework, with here and there a strip of echoing sheet iron. Their crayfish, however, are much more attractive, being a very noble sort of langouste. . . (Eight days later)--By this time, I am not so sure of its nobility, but is at least a very solid bourgeois...
...used the same methods and psychology as a salesman uses who, for example, sells pig iron. We want to know everything possible about a prospective customer before calling on him and trying to interest him in our stock...