Word: north
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When 63 gassed, weeping, retching sit-downers fled from two North Chicago plants in 1937, they presented U. S. Labor and jurisprudence with the celebrated case of NLRB v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. (TIME, March 1, 1937, et. seq.). Issue: Sit-down v. Property...
Indian Nations. For prejudice-breaking value and charm nothing in the Fair surpassed an exhibition of American Indian art, housed in one wing of the handsome Federal building. To two kinds of visitors it gave pause and enlightenment: 1) those who think that "civilization" came to North America with the white man; 2) those who think that pre-white civilization is now cheapened or extinct. The man who made both views appear distinctly stuffy was René d'Harnoncourt, Austrian-born artist, teacher and brightest young blood in the Interior Department's Office of Indian Affairs...
...plant called Venus' fly trap, a native of North Carolina, was called by the great Charles Darwin "one of the most wonderful in the world." It has a two-lobed leaf which, while waiting for prey, stands open like a gaping clam shell. From the edges of the leaf two rows of slender spikes project inward like teeth. Two or three sensitive hairs serve as a trigger mechanism. When an insect touches these, the lobes snap together, the spikes meshing to prevent escape. Then the leaf, says Miss Prior, "is converted into a virtual stomach and the glands...
Oakland East and North-SUSPEND ALL TRAFFIC EXCEPT SHIP TO GROUND...
...Cloudy Fair 20 Granular Jackson, N.H. Cloudy Fair 19 Granular Laconia (Gilford) N.H. Cloudy Poor 16 Wet Lancaster, N.H. Raining Poor 10 Wet Lincoln, N.H. Cloudy Fair 28 Wet Littleton, N.H. Cloudy Poor 8 Wet Monadnock Region, N.H. Fair Poor 6 Wet Newfound Region, N.H. Cloudy Poor 16 Wet North Conway, N.H. Cloudy Fair 19 Granular North Woodstock, N.H. Cloudy Fair 30 Wet Pinkham Notch, N.H. Cloudy Fair 40 Light Crust Plymouth, N.H. Cloudy Fair 23 3 corn over 20 base Stowe, (Mt. Mansfield) Vt. Cloudy Good 34 Ranging to 70 Sunapee Region, N.H. Cloudy Poor 8 Breakable cr. Tamworth...