Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bulldog jaw unexpectedly stiff, Stanley Baldwin rose last week to make the strongest statement anybody had ever heard the Prime Minister deliver in the House of Commons...
...dear Prime Minister...
...miracle of trust and magnanimity ever happened before? Only people like the English could do it. They may make mistakes, but they're a big people." Smuts straightway buried the hatchet, tried to get his brother-Boers to do likewise. When he took office under Botha, who became Prime Minister, both were accused by diehard Boers of being turncoats. Botha was the popular idol but Smuts was the brains of the administration. Discontented criticism centred...
...Prime cause of the trouble was the demand of coastwise sailors for more pay and better working conditions. To agitate for these ends is nominally the job of the International Seamen's Union of America. which is divided into three districts, Pacific, Atlantic and Great Lakes. The Pacific section came out of the bloody 1934 San Francisco general strike with a pay scale of $62.50 a month, overtime pay, control of their hiring halls. On the east coast, however, the Union remained in conservative hands, wangled only a $57.50 pay scale with no overtime. The rank & file began demanding...
Corn, About 2,000,000 acres of prime farm land are required to supply the 60,-000,000 bu. of corn consumed annually by corn refiners. Chief products are 600,000,000 Ib. of starch, 400,000,000 Ib. of sugar, 1,000,000,000 Ib. of syrup. There are also innumerable corn specialties and byproducts. Corn refining has been a well-established industry for more than half a century, yet the annual grind last year was only 50% larger than in 1906. "These figures offer a sobering thought in our program of promoting the consumption of agricultural goods...