Word: labelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bound in rough grey paper with a vellum back and leather label stamped in gold. The first two-thirds deal with Lawrence's days as a private in the Air Force, which he joined in August 1922 after resigning his rank as Political Adviser in the Colonial Office. The remainder tells of his less harrowing days in the Cadet Corps. To protest the betrayal of the Arab cause at the Peace Conference, at which his promises to Arab leaders were broken, Lawrence refused his Colonial Office salary for six months, worked in an architect's office, went hungry...
...cash was promptly plowed back into stock, frequently for rare items which might be called for only once in a decade. Turnover in some lines is extremely slow. Not long ago the company sold a crane skeleton which it had had for 50 years and which still bore a label written by William Hornaday. A skeleton of the extinct passenger pigeon, bought for $1, was sold for $75-but someone figured out that a cash dollar deposited at compound interest at the time of purchase would have yielded a higher return...
...make R.O.T.C. acceptable to colleges interested in learning and not in snappy uniforms, the War Department has lumped together an assortment of unrelated subjects and called the whole thing "Military Science." The label of "science" is supposed to make the study of war the peer of the legitimate sciences. Somehow the assumed title of science elevates the R.O.T.C. above mere drilled routine and places it in the society of real institutions of learning...
...word "Spanish" has lost its meaning. Either a citizen is a Fascist, or a Communist, and whoever wears the opposing label must be exterminated. The Fascist supporters, who certainly do not constitute more than half the population, seem assured of "victory", but after the victory comes the attempted and perhaps impossible "liquidation" and subjection of one large section of the population by another, the accounting of the irreparable sacrifice of men and resources, the academic disputes as to whether Spain was set back three decades...
...hundred and twenty presses are now drumming out 200,000 catalogs a day, will not complete their run until sometime in September. Donnelley's has four-color presses in which special chemicals dry the ink quickly, machines which wrap and label 8000 books an hour. Five hundred girls do nothing but hand-work- inserting color pages and swatches of cloth. One girl can stick on 1000 swatches an hour-about one every three seconds. In binding the books no stitching is used; the pages are stuck together as they whiz through a glueing machine...