Word: sackfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woolen mill. Sackville was settled 135 years ago and has stood still ever since. Its streets are unpaved. It has no running water, no sewers, no electricity. Almost every wage-earner among its 300 residents works in the mill. Last week the cry of "Anthrax!" prompted Rudolph H. Sack, owner of mill and town, to advise a general evacuation of Sackville...
...Owner Sack had the ground around the mill cleansed with burning gasoline, equipped his workers with masks and gloves. But he did not decide to evacuate the town until the parents of a child who had lost an eye from anthrax threatened to sue him. Last week he bluntly explained that workers are covered by industrial insurance, but that his company could not pay compensation for illness or death of nonworkers & children...
...Housing and Labor Departments moved in on Sackville. The Health Department told residents they need not move, since anthrax is infectious but not contagious and hence there was no danger of an epidemic. The Housing Department launched an investigation with a view to cleaning up the hovels provided for Sack workers. The Labor Department gave Owner Sack 30 days to install sanitary lunch, dressing and toilet facilities, make his mill a decent place to work...
...Julius II, hardbitten, bearded warrior Pope; Lucrezia Borgia, who "had four charms, not to mention a slight voluptuous cast in one eye. She was vapid, she was virtuous, she smelled of man, and she did not understand art." For graphic historical writing, Author Roeder's picture of the sack of Rome (1527) will stand with the best of them. And everywhere through the magnificent murk sound the great names, like bells: Borgia, Delia Rovere, Medici, Este. Gonzaga, Sforza...
...Berlin nearly every kiosk blossomed with a poster of Der Marschall und der Gefreite. Onetime Gefreite (lance-corporal) Adolf Hitler was shown in Nazi uniform, Feldmarschall von Hindenburg in the sack suit of a President. Together they appealed to all Germany in giant capitals to KAMPFEN MIT UNS FUR FRIEDEN UND GLEICHBERECHTIGUNG! ("Battle with us for peace and equality!"). The great plebiscite decreed by Chancellor Hitler to vindicate his withdrawal of Germany from the Disarmament Conference and resignation from the League of Nations (TIME, Oct. 23 et seq.) was on. Adolf Hitler, born an Austrian, was about to make good...