Word: moving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like having the horizon move into your front yard. Imagine being a bricklayer, an electrician, a clerk in a music store, an instructor of long distance telephone operators or a tire repair man, and being unexpectedly confronted, in person, with two men whose names have been appearing in newspaper headlines for four years. Connected with their names?Harry Ford Sinclair and Albert Bacon Fall?was something about oil, oil in Wyoming, oil belonging to the U. S. Navy. Millions of dollars had been involved. Mr. Sinclair and Mr. Fall were accused of doing something wrong about a lease, some liberty...
...significance of the strike, however, was seen rather in its probable effects on other wage-earners than in the walk-out itself. Many workers are admittedly underpaid and a general move for increases is now envisaged, as was sometime ago predicted by John Maynard Keynes, British economist. This move has already received a fillip by the Federal Government which recently raised the salaries of its employes. In this connection other able economists pointed out that Germany is short-sighted in that she does not grasp that raising the standard of wages also raises the standard of living and promotes internal...
...mathematician, in using the machine to do away in an afternoon with months of calculating, plots equations on paper which is passed slowly under pointers in the 35-foot apparatus: Operators stationed along the length of the machine keep the pointers on the curves, and as these pointers move up and down, the power flowing through the meter varies in proportion and the number of revolutions it makes is the integral desired...
...labor union. Schoonmaker Injunction. United Mine Workers employed by the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corp. went on strike last April. Pending peace they did not change their domiciles which were, for the most part, houses owned by the Terminal Coal Co. When they sytruck, the company told them to move out, presumably wanting its houses for occupancy by non-union laborers. The union men would not budge. They paid their rent. They guaranteed to continue to pay their rent. The company thereupon forbade trespassing on its property and kept the milkman, the grocer, even the doctor from visiting its unwelcome tenants...
...Donham said: "It requires little Imagination to feel a widespread social consciousness emerging from the chaos of individualism in this new profession of business--a social consciousness with its objective the sound evolutionary progress of civilization." Such a sentiment finds a clear exposition in the School's latest move." Thus are ambitions and theoretical premises translated into actual achievements...