Word: listings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...figure in his mouth; he meant 50%. Army officers consider three months' intensive training the minimum necessary to turn a green man into a conscript fighter, thinks CCCers may be useful after a month of drill & discipline. Other military potentials of CCC: the permanent, continuously up-to-date list of CCC names kept at the Army's nine Corps Area headquarters; a reservoir of air corps mechanics...
...offered to give Martin a list of all the employes of the Ford company and told him to go ahead and organize them if he could. I told him I didn't think he could make it, but he was welcome...
...still impossible to count all dead and injured this week. But as broken bodies were pried from the ruins and missing persons checked, the best figures set the toll at 50,000 dead, 60,000 injured, more than 700,000 homeless. It was the highest casualty list in any South American disaster...
...parcels, peddled magazines, delivered milk, fired locomotives, collected streetcar fares, worked on a blasting gang in gold mines of the Big Dome. Every time he tried a new job, he quickly decided he had missed his calling. Finally, by shutting his eyes and putting his finger down on a list of vocations ranging from accountant to sausage maker, he picked what proved a relatively permanent and permanently restless occupation-journalism...
...high-school band, a salesman calls on the local bigwiggery and the clubwomen, cajoles them into a week's fund-raising campaign to put Podunk on the musical map. When Podunk's committee has the money in the bank, the salesman checks over Columbia's list of appropriately-priced artists. For these, Podunkians pay list prices. But Judson's artists get a good deal less. Community has not yet paid...