Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...red weather...
...couples with small incomes. Through the State Charities Aid Association in Manhattan, babies have been given to laundresses, bootblacks and laborers who have steady jobs. A letter from satisfied foster parents (humble Italians who named their boy Tony) received by that agency: "Strong in health, lovely in heart, red in the face, quiet in the life, intelligent, beautiful, it is the boy that God give...
Forty-six hours later Wilson Burgess signed off. In that time he had sent more than 900 messages, calls for rescue boats, Red Cross communications for medicine, food, doctors and nurses; orders from local undertakers for coffins; advice to boil water; warnings to looters; instructions to rescue pilots; news details of the hurricane that killed 136 people in the Westerly and nearby beach areas before it swept on up through New England...
Examinees were asked to say whether certain statements were consistent with, irrelevant to or inconsistent with the poem, e.g.: The houses are haunted by ghosts; drunkenness is a terrible vice; respectable people are happier than drunken sailors; "red weather" occurs only at sunset; there is only one drunken sailor; life is now too uniform and standardized (closest to the poem's meaning...
...better off. President Eugene Grace of Bethlehem Steel (whose big Eastern shipyards are running at full capacity, have just received new orders for one battleship and two cruisers) saw his common selling at 30% below the year's high. U. S. Steel Corp. was floundering in the red. General Electric's Gerard Swope had nothing to cheer about: his April orders had failed to hold the March improvement...