Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Items for Miscellany are gathered and checked with care. As for Teddy, he got home to Boston last month, having hitchhiked from Oakland, Calif, (where his trusting owner, retired Chiropodist Fred Sidney of Harvard, Mass., turned him loose). Thanks to fellow travelers' assistance, smart Teddy had made the 3,272-mile trip in only 26 days...
...arrived at his billet. On his clothes was sewn his name and address. A Mr. Brown's four children, aged 4 to 11, marched with their names printed in big letters on their backs. From London and 28 other cities, all through last weekend and this week, the greatest mass evacuation in Britain's history went on. Some children were grave-faced. Some, like their mothers who had come along to say goodby, wept. But most were elated by their adventure. They stamped and sang and danced the Lambeth Walk as they waited for their trains. It was almost...
...Between 1870 and 1930, efficiency (volume of goods per worker) in production trebled but efficiency in distribution sat still, and a quarter of the country's workers were shifted from production to distribution. While U. S. businessmen goggled at the cost-saving possibilities of automatic machinery and scientific mass production, they let distribution grow into a vast, unscientific mushroom. Pennies snipped from production cost climbed back onto the cost of getting goods to the consumer...
Last week, as it does every other year, the National Conference of Christians and Jews held its Institute of Human Relations at Williamstown, Mass., discussed in mani- fold aspects the general theme "Citizenship and Religion." Typical forums were on the Church's relationship to economic reform, legislation, civil liberties, education, entertainment, social welfare...
...South Barre, Mass., a deputy sheriff on duty in a woollen strike handed in his badge. He said his feet hurt, he didn't like the smell of tear gas, and he was promised...