Word: made
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suspicion, generally deflate the Federation's official figure by at least 1,000,000 to get at the actual, paid-up membership. But the most significant story of A. F. of L., 1939 was not in totals claimed or actual. It was where those reported gains were made...
...catalogue could communicate the dimensions or the intricacy of the industrial organization, with its infinite interconnections and interdependencies, the relationships that tied it to areas as well as to industries. In Boston itself only 219 of the 5,443 manufacturing plants made boots and shoes, but shoes in Lynn and Worcester, shoe machinery in Lynn and Boston, cotton woven goods in Providence, Fall River, New Bedford, textile machinery and parts in Worcester, nonferrous metal alloys, edge tools and electrical machinery in Bridgeport, New Haven, Waterbury, created an industrial organization that employed more than 1,000,000, produced a large share...
...sets, duck decoys, fishing tackle, riding boots, bathing suits, bicycles, travel books, pianos, phonograph records, violins, skis, garden seed, sailboats-a vast index of their tastes and needs, as fundamental to the U. S. temperament as the commercialism generally applied to it. If the iron ore of the Mesabi made it inevitable that there should be a vast steel industry in the U. S., the first glimpse of the Rockies, steel-blue and airy, made it inevitable that there would always be a U. S. market for pack saddles; and the first glimpse of the Yellowstone or the Shoshone bounding...
Herr Hitler made a clear offer, said the official German news agency of Adolf Hitler's Reichstag speech (see above), and he expects a clear answer...
...Germany was on such excellent terms with all her neighbors-including Britain and France, as far as he was concerned-Mr. Hitler wondered what all the shooting was about on the Western Front. At this point Adolf Hitler figuratively vanished into the drapery behind him and a composite character made up of Aristide Briand, Ramsay MacDonald, Gustav Stresemann, Neville Chamberlain, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Cordell Hull suddenly took his place. The change of word and wind was nothing short of fantastic. Pacific, idealistic, hopeful, tenderly humane and sweetly vague, Herr Hitler turned his back on his old "Blood and Soil...