Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President of the United States is the voice of America, if. America has any voice at all. He is the leader in America, if America has any leader at all." It was 5:45 in the afternoon and spectators were peering down from the galleries into the shadowy old room. It was a moment which called for Patrick Henryesque flamboyance, and patriotic Mr. O'Connor sawed the air with both hands while supplying...
...said nothing about a contract. It ordered the corporation to stop interfering with self-organization of its workers, to disestablish its company unions, to offer reinstatement with back pay to all the estimated 5,000 strikers and to discharge other employes hired after the strike if necessary to make room for them, to post notices of compliance in the five plants affected for 60 days...
...city," and no authority existed by which they could be segregated. "Workers' houses . . . would be built smack up against a steel works, a dye plant, a gas works or a railroad cutting." Hanley, England (see cut) is an example. In workers' housing the one-family room became standard from Dublin to Bombay. Coketown (Mumford's name for the industrial city taken from Dickens' Hard Times), was so shrouded with smoke that "the black stove pipe hat was almost a functional design...
...decimal it can never be expressed exactly, but the decimal value has been carried out by patient mathematicians to 707 digits. At the Paris Fair last year this huge number was written, for the edification of fairgoers, round & round in a spiral on the inside wall of a circular room...
...poor investment, New York added an amendment: Insurance companies could buy land if they immediately put up buildings on it, if all their real-estate holdings did not amount to more than 10% of their assets, if the rent they charged was not more than $9 a month a room. Other States followed. Because of the various State laws there is no generalizing about the life insurance business, but recent figures for 49 legal reserve life insurance companies with 92% of the total life insurance assets show $4,686,000,000 (19% of their assets) in mortgage loans...