Word: load
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Historians will not vex themselves with the details of his life. It is recorded that he was born and had some schooling in upstate New York. The Oneida Central Bank employed him at $100 a year. As clerk in a lumber yard in Chicago, they made him load and unload wagons and dropped him when bad times came. He got into a bank and after 42 years quit Chicago, its leading banker...
...assumptions alone. "All races are equally capable to the task of managing their industrial problems at the beginning. The United States, England, and the rest of the world has paid an enormous price for its great industrialization. Besides, the Mexicans are very clever. They can carry their own load. They have included all industrial problems in their Constitution, They trust none of these problems like the eight hour day, the 16 year age limit for working children, and similar ones to a Supreme Court. They wrote the legislation of the world for the last 50 years into their constitution...
...spending 18 shillings [$4.38] a head per year on defenses, practically twice as much as all the other dominions put together, and only five shillings less per head per year than the English taxpayer. . . . We would like to see each part of the Empire similarly bearing the common load...
When cities bake and even country breezes fail, she picks up an extra load and carries...
...peasant trundled his cart in from the suburbs of Lyons last week. The cart was heavy. Beneath a load of warm manure nestled 110 pounds of golden 20-franc pieces done up in sacks. Arrived at the Bank of France the peasant, Jacques Brosson, winnowed out his sacks of gold, exchanged them for 730,000 paper francs, hired a taxi, returned home to hoard paper which he believed would soon appreciate...