Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unskilled rural labor in the Deep South; highest, $94 for Northern professional city workers. Pay will be on a monthly basis, with no deduction for interruptions such as caused by bad weather. Professional labor leaders, not bothering immediately to take all factors into account, squawked that this scale would pull down wages in private industry...
...started South. A mosquito bit his left arm which swelled, became useless. Game was so scarce he had to lie on his back, lure seals, which he munched raw, by waving his feet in the air. Three dogs froze and Adventurer Irwin lashed himself in the traces to pull the sledge. One day he fell through the ice, twisted his knee. Starving, he killed a dog, ate it. became deathly sick. Two days later he reeled into an Eskimo village where trappers from Baker Lake found him. First thing Adventurer Irwin wanted last week was a telegraph blank. Said...
...never permitted Mrs. Hoffman, his five daughters and a son (who died last January) to call him anything except "Father." Lately he endures "Papa" from the grown "women, especially when they say, "Papa, here's a present for you." His six grandchildren dare to call him "Grandpa" and pull his beard...
...Tech and hard-fighting competitor to the untried Ithacans and the Big Red crews. The Crimson will go to the line in the Varsity, Jayvee, Freshman, and 150 pound classes as will Cornell and Tech, with only Syracuse failing to bring its full complement of 36 men ready to pull or yell for the alma mater until the last ounce of energy is expended...
Last week the brothers had plans under way for construction of new machines, called the "Universal Pull-Model" which will be demonstrated this season and put into production next year. Probable price: $995 f. o. b. factory. Estimated operation cost per acre of cotton (including repairs, fuel, labor, interest): 98?. Planters have declared that with such machines they could grow cotton at a profit even if the price dropped below...