Word: ladened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boat, with no firearms and scant provisions, it looked like the end for them. Their problem was to get to the nearest European settlement, in Java, 3,600 miles away. Prevailing easterly winds made a return to Tahiti impossible. The boat was only 23 feet long, so heavily laden that there was less than nine inches of freeboard amidships. They had to bail almost continually to keep afloat...
From the resulting shambles the police ordered rescuers to "take only the ones that are nearly whole." Beside the track they laid out 180 corpses. In an ice-crusted field, by the fog-laden light of fires and lanterns, they laid out nearly 400 injured. Among the latter were two members of the French Chamber of Deputies. Soon on the narrow dirt road into the little town of Lagny, wound a file of taxis, ambulances and delivery trucks such as had not been seen since the battle of the Marne, 19 years ago and ten miles away...
...retained her women's national golf title (see p. 42). In suburban Glenview, 30,000 a day watched the four-day International Air Races (see p. 44). At the Morrison Hotel holy men gathered for the World Fellowship of Faiths conference (see p. 23). And even the stench-laden stockyards made national news when, following a long Armour & Co. proxy battle, Armour directors voted down their proposed recapitalization plan...
...concession. It deluged the employers with public approval, gave them a better leverage against Labor's extreme demands. Likewise they would be put to no great financial loss because, of the 600,000 U. S. textile workers, only about 15,000 are children, toiling mostly in the lint-laden air of Southern mills. But their child labor prohibition was packed with moral dynamite which might yet blow the anachronistic practice out of all industry. Next to cotton mills, clothing factories suck in more girls and boys than any other U. S. industry. Most of them are dark. fetid "sweatshops...
...Dashiell Hammett had written Grand Hotel, the result might have been something like Sleepers East. Author Nebel cannot command Hammett's sulphurous and suspense-laden style, but he has fitted together a first-rate melodrama, whose plot is more cunningly joined than Grand Hotel's, its suspense and climax better managed. Sleepers East is headed for a brisk trip, with Hollywood one of its way-stations...