Word: productively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...product of this trend is Candidate McMasters who polled 48,000 votes in Massachusetts' Republican primary for Governor, although he did not have the official Townsend accolade. Nor was his deal with Candidate Saltonstall the brainchild, as many observers guessed, of shrewd young Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. It was engineered by an opportunist even shrewder: William Henry McMasters...
...Aroostook County, Maine, with a crowd of 4.000 standing around in the rain to watch, long-armed Republican Governor Lewis O. Barrows of Maine peeled off his coat to engage short-armed Democratic Governor Barzilla W. Clark of Idaho in a five-minute contest at picking potatoes-a prime product of both their States. Governor Clark pitched his spuds forward into his basket; Governor Barrows scrabbled backwards into a basket between his long, straddled legs (see cut). The winner: Maine's Barrows, 201 lbs. to 197 lbs. He apologized :"I probably had a four-pound rock in there." Idaho...
...primary also produced an obstacle to the Governor's greater ambitions. Older than his National Progressives of America is the Farmer-Labor Progressive Federation, a by-product of Minnesota's potent Farmer-Labor Party-a similar attempt to expand a State third-party machine beyond State borders. The burgeoning National Progressives, already a force in California politics and last fortnight unsuccessfully implored by Democratic Governor Nelson Kraschel to abandon their plans for a three-cornered race in Iowa this year, have more than once rubbed elbows with Farmer-Laborites but have preserved a state of truce. This year...
...apparel trade, which had for some time heard rumors of the new Du Pont product under the name of Fibre 66, believed it might prove the first practical process for manufacturing synthetic silk entirely from chemicals...
...first, a technicolor sound picture with Edwin C. Hill as commentator, follows the manufacture of steel from the mines to the finished product. Depicted in the second film are some of the constructive operations of the Tennessee Calley Authority. The last picture shows work on the Grand Coulee Dam, largest in the United States, in which the process of solidifying the soil by freezing was successfully used...