Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much of this generosity was inspired by the Roosevelt landslide was impossible to determine. Certainly the rush to raise wages that developed in industry after Nov. 3 looked suspiciously like a hasty effort to climb aboard the band wagon of a President who is deeply indebted to Labor. Only big industry to get aboard ahead of time was Packing, which upped its scales 7% one week before Election. Steel hopped on as soon as returns were in. Wage boosts followed in the textile and automobile industries, in hundreds of miscellaneous manufacturing enterprises throughout the land. By last week United Press...
...Vermont Ephraim Putney puts down "The Contry Gentleman" and rubs his eyes as he clumps in his loose old Congress gaiters up to bed. While in Florida a huge corps of painters, cleaning-women and janitors go over the Miami-Biltmore, working late to get ready for the coming rush. While overseas the bright young Mr. Eden scratches his head over the second major diplomatic crisis he has had to handle in a year. While Mussolini frowns and Hitler grunts and Stalin snorts into his walrus mustache. The dilemma of Spain is here and has got to be unravelled. What...
...than in the previous 3,000 years. Motor trucks and buses now snort over a Chinese countryside in which the peasants are still too poor to buy even kerosene for their lamps, much less bus tickets. The buses are mainly for Chiang's soldiers and the trucks to rush food and supplies enabling the Government to nip floods and famines which have cursed China down the centuries. In times past Chinese have died not by the thousands but by the hundreds of thousands simply because their Government had no means to ship food over trackless wastes fast enough...
Hygiene doctors have been doing a rush job this fall, having seen 2,452 patients during the month of October and administered an additional 1,358 physical exams...
...suddenly biffs a distinguished, patriotic colleague and is challenged to a duel. As he prepares his will in the certainty that he will be killed, strange things happen: his housekeeper, whom he had expected to be greedy for his money, turns out to try to fight for him. Others rush to his defense, old friends appear, his opponent is caught in some shabby trickery and Cripure saved. But the old faker, more startled at humanity's occasional goodness than at its depravity, ends his moment of peace, shoots himself...