Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congress reached for control of the country's working hours under its constitutional authority to regulate interstate commerce. The Black Bill provided that no product of "any mine, quarry, mill, cannery, workshop, factory or manufacturing establishment" in which employes worked more than six hours a day or five days a week could move in interstate commerce. Penalty: $200 fine and three months imprisonment. Exempt from the law were newspapers, magazines, farms, railroads, dairies, canneries of perishable foods. Company officers, executives, superintendents and their personal assistants were likewise free to work as they chose...
...light wind and fog. When lightning was sighted below Philadelphia Captain McCord changed the course from south to northwest. Said Commander Wiley: "Although my own inclination was to go west, he had as much or more information than I and his judgment was just as good as mine. . . ." Later, however, when the ship was heading east at sea, Captain McCord told him that a helmsman had misunderstood one of his orders. Instead of changing course by fifteen degrees, he had changed by fifty. Sometime thereafter the course was changed to west...
...London one Emelia Tersini, waitress, suing monstrous Boxer Primo Carnera for breach of promise, was awarded ?4,200 ($14,300) on the strength of letters from Carnera saying, "Dear Treasure of Mine. . . . Our little nest of love. . . . You can have trust in your Primo because he loves you with all his heart and soul...
...main panels showed the automobile industry from the mine to the assembly line at Ford Motor Co.'s River Rouge plant, populated by Rivera's chunky, concentrated figures. Others showed a pharmaceutical factory (Parke, Davis & Co.), airplane welders, poison gas workers, topped in huge scale by females representing the raw materials of Detroit's industries: a white woman for limestone, black for coal, yellow for sand, red for iron ore. Critics rated the frescoes first-class, noted an increasing hardness and sharpness in Rivera's detail. Nearly overlooked was a little panel high on one wall...
...Author, though he is known to would-be thoughtful playgoers on both sides of the Atlantic as a deliciously or irritatingly mystifying playwright, got to the ripe age of 45 without writing a play. Born in Girgenti, Sicily (1867) as son of a sulphur-mine owner, he wrote five books of poetry before he was 23, took his degree in philosophy at Germany's University of Bonn, and went back to Rome to teach Italian literature to women. After he had published 20 books of short stories and three novels, a playwright friend persuaded him to dramatize...