Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pack-jammed with hard-boiled operators who for years had balked unionization of their properties, and with tough-fisted veterans who had fought and bled for their union. Together they bated their breath as Mine Leader Lewis pulled the contract to him, squiggled his name. A moment later Operator Morrow signed. Signatures of other operators and U. M. W. officials completed the deal which unionized 95% of the soft coal industry, gave NRA its first detailed wage agreement based on a code. Messrs. Lewis and Morrow jointly declared: "Unquestionably this agreement is the greatest in magnitude and importance that...
...production's stage staff. He needs all of them in Hold Your Horses. He juggles a whopping hogshead which he catches on the soles of his feet from a steep runway. He directs Dave Chasen to drop down to the corner for some cigars, at the precise moment that Chasen disappears through a trap door. In his mayoral office is a statue which, when dusted, sneezes. He calls for his running pants, and a pair of trousers, propelled by an invisible dwarf, trots across the stage. He occasionally pauses to rattle off, in a manner as modest and conscientiously...
...some 1,000 hr. at the stick. He started gliding in 1929. At the July meet he persuaded his father to go up with him for a sail in his Dragonfly, a handsome two-place job built by famed Gliderman Hawley Bowlus. A sudden shift of wind at the moment of launching spilled the Dragonfly into a clump of bushes, a wreck. Rescuers heard Father du Pont ask calmly: "How do you get out of this violin case?" Neither was hurt. Few days later Pilot du Pont soared a new sailplane to 4,334 ft.-the meet altitude record, only...
...else. In the very early Albany era, his politics was mere moral indignation, but he vented it so resoundingly as to rid New York of a few petty pillagers of the till and to sweep himself into the governor's chair. During the war days, when he was one moment writing articles and the next going off to sulk because Mr. Root would not let him lead a picturesque cavalry squadron to suicide in France, his politics was mere moral indignity. But whenever he abandoned a cause, he washed his hands of it quietly, and never failed to preserve...
...mortgage companies. While there are of course plenty of for rent signs and the owners of properties feel that sufficient mortgage money is outstanding, the truth is a survey of many big cities reveals a housing shortage. This is because families have doubled up during the depression. The moment unemployment is relieved in any considerable volume the demand for housing facilities will reappear...