Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...within 15 months." Replied the responsible Soviet official, according to despatches, "The contract is yours. You will receive a large bonus if you complete the work in less than 15 months. In compliment to your company we shall probably call the city Austingrad." Austingrad will be the Detroit of Red Russia. Primarily it is intended as the Soviet focus of motor car manufacture, and $20,000,000 of the contract will be spent on car and tractor plants built for the latest type of straight line mass production. Three hundred motor vehicles per day will represent not peak but conservative...
...Red-Headed Rooster of the Rio Grande" lately crowed a loud, defiant crow. Last week lawyers in Manhattan and Brownsville, Tex., made ready to dispute the pros and cons of his crowing...
...Rooster is Rentfro Banton Creager, red-haired Brownsville bank president, Republican National Committeeman and Texas boss, onetime gubernatorial nominee, good friend of Presidents Harding and Coolidge, both of whom offered him the U. S. Ambassadorship to Mexico. In every way "Rooster" Creager looms large in Texas. When he read references to himself which he considered defamatory in Collier's magazine, he was not one to blench. Promptly he filed libel suits against Cottier's aggregating...
...Hidalgo is a shining, fertile land, starred with endless constellations of grapefruit, melons and other juici- nesses?a lustrous feat of irrigation. Its crop is estimated at 4,500 carloads per year. Hidalgo homes are prosperous. Yancy Baker, onetime roughriding Hidalgo sheriff, now Democratic boss, lives in an enormous red and yellow showr place. Hidalgo people smile in the sun. Hidalgo ripens like its fruits. It has been irrigated financially through troughs of clever politics...
...shepherd driving his flock before him; he is the bull marching at the head of his herd." Portrait at 30. "The mind of Beethoven has strength for its base. The musculature is powerful, the body athletic; we see the short stocky body with its great shoulders, the swarthy red face, tanned by sun and wind, the stiff black mane, the bushy eyebrows, the beard running up to the eyes, the broad and lofty forehead and cranium, 'like the vault of a temple,' powerful jaws 'that can grind nuts,' the muzzle and the voice of a lion...