Word: number
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wallace, of course, was not so crass as to tell American farmers that they must take a number, must carry a card. Any farmer who wants to do so may grow all the cotton he pleases, store it in his barn, light a cigar with his AAA pasteboard and go unpunished. Mr. Wallace simply told cotton buyers, who are not a big or politically potent class, that upon them rests the burden of properly identifying the cotton. Furthermore, buyers, on pain of $500 fine, must strictly observe an AAA color line...
...support themselves) from Greater Germany next year. Almost sole note of encouragement came from eight Latin American nations: Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico and the Dominican Republic (which nine months ago massacred 1,000 neighboring Haitians because they moved into her territory), offered to accept a limited number of refugees if they came as agricultural workers...
...firm grip on the life of the place and has come to stay. Terror reigns throughout the population and nobody dares give a plain answer to a plain question. . . . All the jails are full and the concentration camp at Dachau (near Munich) has grown to unwieldy proportions. . . . The total number placed in jails since March 12 (when Austria was annexed by the Reich) can hardly be less than 50,000 and is probably more...
...Ford thinks that the centralization of the 1920s has been carried far enough. He looks to a time when all the incredible number of light parts that go into a Ford will be made in little towns where the annual shut-down for retooling can be made to coincide with the harvest...
...theatres in which Equity members may perform. Class A companies, of which there were 35 last year, 62 this, must have a nucleus of six Equity members at $40-a-week minimum and have the exclusive right to produce old or new plays. Class B calls for the same number of Equity members, is restricted to old plays only. This year's silo circuit is scheduling more plays and stars than appear in an average eight months' season on Broadway...