Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negro labor is unskilled. Not only do Negroes work for less money than whites, but Negroes, particularly if raised in the South, are more impressed by demonstration of civil authority, more easily cowed by tough company tactics. Moreover, Negroes, having been barred, openly or tacitly, from many an old line union, have little incentive to stand by white strikers, although C. I. O. has embraced Negroes more willingly than A. F. of L., which frequently carries discrimination to the point of segregating them in "Jim Crow unions" affiliated with its regular craft unions. The only Negro-controlled international union...
British scientists as a class are less afraid of their colleagues' opinion than U. S. scientists, and at their meetings they adhere less to the orthodox line of matter-of-fact reporting. In his presidential address Sir Edward, who is 81, indulged an old man's privilege of reminiscing at will. He has been going to B. A. A. S. meetings for 56 years and he remembers the shifting course of B. A. A. S. opinion about organic evolution. That was what he talked about last week...
...China. The U. S. personnel of China National Aviation Corp. was last week on its way home-the air line (owned 55-45 by China and Pan American Airways respectively) abandoned by Pan American which operated it. its planes commandeered for war service. Standards of New Jersey and California...
Shipping, Meanwhile the trade routes of the world were being altered. Canadian Pacific, Dollar and Nippon Yusen Kaisha Lines dropped Shanghai from their schedules. Passenger traffic to China had ceased almost entirely, although traffic to Japan suffered little. Marine underwriters discontinued (or raised to prohibitive heights) war risk insurance on all cargoes to be unloaded at Chinese ports. This promptly affected exports, for banks generally refused to advance credit on uninsured shipments. New York seamen contributed to the trouble by agitating for war risk pay when serving on ships in "endangered waters." The Dollar Line had one consolation: fat fees...
...Louis Napoleon Bonaparte had chosen for the coup d'etat that made him Napoleon III, so the novel was lost in the political shuffle. In their fight for fame the brothers encountered even graver difficulties. Rabid anti-romantics, they wrote such painstakingly realistic novels that old-line critics whooped "sculptured slime . . . literature of putrescence." To younger men, such as Emile Zola, the Goncourts were prophetic pioneers. Gradually they built up a literary circle- Gautier, Sainte-Beuve, Flaubert, Renan, Taine-who used to meet fortnightly to dine well, talk how they liked. On one of these occasions, Gautier rebuked...