Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Loss to C.I.O. of I.L.G.W.U., second largest of the original C.I.O. unions, will mean loss of one of the most progressive, most solvent, most ably led industrial unions in the country. Whether the garment workers remain independent or return to a gleeful A. F. of L. remains to be worked...
Coketown. Lewis Mumford's indictment of the "paleotechnic" (coal & iron industrial) age concentrates the eloquence of generations of reformers, the enlightenment of generations of thinkers, besides his own exceptional talents for raking up the coals. For the social chaos and loss of architectural form which overcame the city during the 18th and 19th Centuries the only excuse was the speed of industrial expansion and the colossal rise in the population of Europe. "It was a period of vast urban improvisation: makeshift piled upon makeshift. . . . Until 1838 neither Manchester nor Birmingham even functioned politically as incorporated boroughs: they were...
...indefinitely expanding grids of rectangular blocks with regard neither to topography nor function, opening the way for "fat pieces of 'honest' municipal jobbery in the grading and filling of streets." Hilly San Francisco was platted as if it were a prairie town, to the perpetual economic loss of its citizens. Arterial highways were made too narrow, residential streets too wide...
...admitted that there might be a slight error in the last digit of one of his values but he had checked and rechecked to hold the possible error to a minimum. "Even a single false digit," said he, "in the published value of a basic constant can cause incalculable loss of time and energy...
...loss that did not rankle in the minds of the Council's representatives was that handed them by three feminine debaters at the Catholic college of Misericordia. This debate was presented before an audience packed with attractive Misericordia girls and followed by informal dancing with the opposing team. Veteran debaters rated Misericordia speakers above representatives of Radcliffe, Wellesley, and Vassar in poise, charm, and even debating! Arrangements were concluded on the spot for a return debate at Harvard next Fall...