Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the world may see streaks of light through the long hours of darkness, Orange, N. J., women hired themselves to the U. S. Radium Corporation. Daily they took up watch dials and painted the blind numerals with a magic dye which made them glow at night. The company paid a high price for the paint. When a few drops were left in the glass after the brushes were twirled and pointed, supervisors complained. The girls were taught to point and clean the brushes with their lips. Thirteen died. Last week the U. S. Radium Corporation was defendant...
...hour trading days. The Western traders, being hours away from Manhattan, lost precious time for making, and losing, money. Manhattan operators lost commissions. That was one factor that induced the Exchange to resume full day & week trading. Another was that trading last week was lighter than in a very long time. And another factor was that Wall Street bookkeepers had in a measure caught up with their day & night entries...
Managers of Wanamaker's department store in Philadelphia last week acted on their long suspicion that their 6-year-old broadcasting station, WOO, one of the oldest in the country, was "not helping the store in general or in an advertising way." "Investigation made by special inquiry among radio listeners during the past two years" had confirmed the thought. So last week store officials declared that...
Thomas Mann is less known in this country for Death in Venice, a collection of long short stories, than for his two-volume "naturalistic" Buddenbrooks, and The Magic Mountain, another lengthy fictionized philosophy. One is therefore the more surprised that he produces Children and Fools, a collection of actual short stories. And pleasantly surprised, because the briefer format is better adapted to carry the even tenor of sad beauty that pervades all of Mann's writings, and is unbearably sustained in his long novels...
...Dorothy says why would a book about a girl like she be so wonderful? And it seems that Ralph Barton's portraits aren't so good either without the Inspiration he seems to get out of me in them. But there's a long intraduction full of practically nothing but me. And anyway 40,000 people bought the book before it was even out, and so it seems that there is nothing to really be discouradged about as usual...