Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...necessity for carrying Relief on into fiscal 1940 loomed nearer and larger to an Appropriations subcommittee of the House. In his last message on the subject (TIME, May 8), Franklin Roosevelt asked for $1,477,000,000 to carry an average of 2,000,000 workers on WPA (mostly manual labor) through the coming year. For PWA (heavy construction works) he asked nothing this time. In the weeks that have passed since that message, Mr. Roosevelt's hopes for an upturn in the capital goods industries have dwindled. Beside the picture of 11,000,000 idle workers has persisted...
...little to save themselves, there were two major explanations: 1) the tilted escape chamber proved a death trap; 2) the Thetis' crew did not start to save itself until its air was fouled and bilge water had begun to wet the batteries, releasing chlorine gas. Says the escape manual of the U. S. Navy, father of the submarine: "It is emphasized that if attempted individual escape is delayed until the first stages of asphyxia have developed, it will probably be too late successfully to accomplish...
...presence of throngs by having all Federal employes excused from work from 11 a.m. to 1 p. m. Military strictness prevailed. Officers wore their medals & decorations. The only two pressmen (one reporter, one cameraman) permitted in the parade had to wear Army uniforms (sergeants). A spectator caught doing the manual of arms with a marine's rifle was instantly arrested...
...twice jailed, often investigated, once haled before the Inquisition. In Paris, Ignatius cut an odd figure as a University student of 37. Author Marcuse places greater emphasis on Jesuit Loyola's physical activities than on the early turmoil of soul which produced the Spiritual Exercises, the extraordinary manual by which Jesuits are formed and live. But he does not slight the other distinctive aspect of Jesuitism: its military discipline as the first Catholic order vowed specifically to the defense of the papacy...
...Cleveland, after scientific tests with typists, Patent Attorney Frank M. Slough declared that the average typist does more manual labor in an eight-hour day than a ditchdigger...