Word: packed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning, see it put together during the day, drive off in it at evening. He may watch Firestone turn crude rubber and chemicals into finished automobile tires, one every ten minutes. Phoenix Hosiery will show women how silk stockings are woven. Quaker Oats Co. will steam, roll, pack 100 cases of breakfast food per hour. Only inactive spot will be the airy, peaceful TIME-FORTUNE building, carefully designed as "A Place to Sit Down" and containing the world's biggest rack of current periodicals...
...Government buildings. Such was the resounding oath of "allegiance" to His Majesty George V, his heirs and successors by law, required of all Irish Free State members of Parliament. Last week Eamon de Valera got rid of that too, despite a stone around his neck and a yapping pack at his heels. The stone is the Irish Seanad (Senate). Its 60 members are elected for nine-year terms by the Dail and Seanad conjointly, in batches of 20 every three years. Once an honorable company, they are now chiefly pious place-hunters. A majority are men of onetime President William...
Dogs must be taught to like alcohol. Dr. Gettler. a deliberate, inquisitive investigator, taught a pack to get drunk in order to find a measure of intoxication in man. Some individuals burn up alcohol faster than others. The quick-burners can drink much more than the others before getting drunk. But every drunk's brain is wet with alcohol. Thus Dr. Gettler could tell that Ruth Snyder besotted her husband before she and Judd Gray crushed his skull with a sash weight (TIME. April 4, 1927, et seq.}. Driving from the crime she tried to enhearten Judd Gray...
...only son. Across the plains and mountains from a farm in fat Missouri went hawk-nosed George Hearst among 250,000 other young men drawn by the California gold strike. He was one of the handful who struck it, and kept it, and multiplied it richly. With mule and pack horse he roamed hardily from Alaska to Mexico. He went back to Missouri for his bride, patrician Phoebe Apperson, descended from Carolina-Virginia stock. His mines, ranches, banks, race horses and friends were one of the greatest collection ever made even in old California. He also owned...
...Durham, N. C. tobacco warehouse, a dance where Manhattan Negro Cab Calloway and his Negro band were playing for a Negro dance, was crashed by several hundred jazz-crazy Negroes. Calloway told his men to stop playing, pack up their instruments. The mob threatened to gang them if they did not play again. Police escorted Calloway & band out while Negroes jigged to no music for two hours...