Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening in smoky, smelly room No. 506 at WPA headquarters were Deputy Administrator Aubrey ("Keep your friends in power") Williams, Assistant Administrator David K. Niles. Before them David Lasser interrogated 50 WPA workers brought on for the occasion from 26 States. One & all declared that WPA wages are too low to keep body & soul together, that they would leave Relief like a shot if they could get private jobs. They also attested that whether or not Reliefers are becoming a permanent class in the U. S., they are certainly becoming a caste apart-shunned as poor credit risks by insurance...
...high Shavian wit is Androcles entertaining, but for low Shavian tom-foolery-particularly near the end when the play bursts its buttons, when Ferrovius licks all the gladiators in sight, when Androcles waltzes with the lion, when Caesar is chased by it, claims the credit for taming it, orders everybody to turn Christian. Such high jinks do not make one wonder what Shaw "means" by it all; they make one wonder whether he may not have had a hand in Hellzapoppin...
...books shut, announced that the Authority was "broke but happy.'' Although there were only 46 local housing authorities when USHA set up shop, there are now 221 (in 31 States) qualified to take advantage of USHA's bargain terms-90% of the cost in longterm, low-interest loans-for slum clearance and low-rental housing programs. Not actually broke, USHA has signed $291,656,000 worth of contracts, earmarked $355,919,000 more, will keep the rest of its nest egg as a "safety margin" until fresh funds are forthcoming. Without directly asking for any, Administrator Straus...
...with farm income at $4,328,000,000, a post-War low, Herbert Hoover lost every State in the Farm Belt...
...crazily as it gathered speed. Panic-stricken miners flung themselves over the side. Some were bounced off the bedrock walls, hurled under the wheels of the rear cars as they whizzed past. A few miners grabbed at a heavy, covered power line which ran along the roof of the low shaft and hung on, knees pulled high to clear the rows of seats, until the rake hurtled by into the blackness. Crazed with fear, men forgot the first rule of the rake-rider and jumped to their feet. They were decapitated by the jagged hunks of coal sticking...