Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the same hearings, another Little Man moaned: "Four workers in my laundry, I have to pay them each $12.60, no matter what I make. Me, I'm called the employer, I work no maximum hours, maybe the end of the week I get six or seven dollars. What do you call me, where do I get in the picture...
...delivered dead to a cemetery caretaker. Sensing a big story, knowing that armed guards were patrolling Spanish cities, newshawks in Paris woke up string correspondents along the Spanish border, put in a call to Oran, in French Morocco. At 1:30 a. m. Madrid suddenly came through with a seven-word official statement: "The Government is master of the situation." These words were the first intimation to the outside world that revolt had broken out in Spain...
...grounded for correction of an apparently faulty tail surface detail. The man who ordered that grounding was Bureau of Air Commerce Inspector A. L. Niemeyer. Later, all the Lockheed Zephyrs were satisfactorily corrected, were actively in the air again. Last week Inspector Niemeyer himself flew into Billings along with seven other passengers in Flight Four's ten reclining seats. At 2:53 Flight Four taxied out the runway for its take-off for Chicago. As passengers sleepily groped for their safety belts the ship took off. Up it went to 100 feet, then. drunkenly, it began to topple...
...sponsored radio, the week of March 6 was chosen by the Federal Communications Commission's statisticians as typical for their first large-scale survey of what was coming over the air. Reports from 633 stations, released last week, revealed the percentage of broad casting time given to the seven major types of radio programs. One item surprised listeners...
...seven days beginning Saturday, July 16. All times are EDST. All programs subject to change without notice...