Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These shots might as well have been saved, for the House was assembled this time to pass the bill that the Administration wanted and it voted overwhelmingly to stay in session until it did so. Taking the usual 40 minutes for each roll call, the House went doggedly on into the night before a crowded gallery.* With roll call after roll call, the earmarking amendments were knocked out one by one until, when the final vote was taken, not even the amendment to reduce Administrator Hopkins' salary remained...
...Passed without a roll call the bill extending until Dec. 31, 1941 the authority of the Government to make soil conservation payments direct to farmers instead of allocating the funds for administration by individual States after Dec. 31 as provided in the Soil Conservation Act. Sent it to the President...
...when the country was passing through a cyclical depression, the number of the unemployed mounted to unprecedented heights. Often the average was more than ten million; at times a peak was attained of 16 million or more. Disaster to the breadwinner meant disaster to dependents. Accordingly the roll of the unemployed, itself formidable enough, was only a partial roll of the destitute or needy. The fact developed quickly that the States were unable to give the requisite relief. The problem had become national in area and dimensions. ... It is too late today for the argument to be heard with tolerance...
Three days later, Ranger started for Newport, towed by the Vanderbilt yacht Vara. Off Seguin Island, a heavy sea was running. The roll caused a turnbuckle to break on an upper shroud. This tiny mishap put additional strain on the other stays, which snapped one by one all through the night. Soon after dawn, off Gloucester, the towering mast finally crashed over the side, carrying all the rigging with it. Said Harold ("Mike") Vanderbilt: "Bad luck!" At Bristol, R. I., workmen prepared to fit Ranger with the mast that used to belong to the old Vanderbilt yacht Rainbow...
...went to work for Goodrich in 1906 without taking the trouble to remind his employers that he was a nephew of the founder and that B. F. Goodrich Co. had once been known as Goodrich, Tew & Co. His first job was to clean and roll liners at 15? an hour, ten and a half hours a day. When his boss told him two years later that $75 a month was his limit, young Tew walked over to Diamond Rubber Co. and got a better job. The first successful cord tire made in the U. S., Silvertown, was produced by Diamond...