Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Main Lobby, an enormous, high room was treated partly with Fabricoustic, the sound-absorbing, ornamental fabric-base material...
Flying squads of British police immediately began a round-up of all known Irish extremists living in England. Homes of Irishmen in London and Manchester, the main centres of bombing activity, were searched. Some 20 Irishmen, all suspected of membership in the I. R. A., were arrested. One of them had in his possession a copy of the proclamation, another 40 sticks of gelignite. Six barrels of explosives were seized in a raid at Manchester...
...Main Berlin White Russian plotter is handsome old General Pavlo Skoropadsky, onetime Tsarist general, for six months Hetman (head man) of the short-lived Republic of the Ukraine, formed in early 1918 by the German Imperial Government. Another White Russian espionage centre is Prague, where White Russian Cossack General P. C. Popov operates. He has recently visited Belgrade, Budapest and Sofia, rounding up old "patriots" for service in the coming Ukrainian campaign. Significant it is that many White Russians of known anti-Communist leanings have found good "jobs" in "poor" Ruthenia...
...Hormel & Co. tried an experiment, offered its smokehouse employes a guaranteed annual wage to ease the shock of layoffs, the strain of rushes. Since then the company has made industrial history with a "straight-time" annual wage plan, under which workers in Hormel's big main plant at Austin are paid a stated wage for a stated amount of work, regardless of the time it takes them...
...grand tour of Europe, always went armed. He also quarreled with peace-loving Partner Thurmond, ran against him for the legislature. On election day 1889, after a savage campaign, Colonel Falkner walked out unarmed after hearing he had won, met Colonel Thurmond, who shot him down on the main street of the town they both helped to build...