Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Massachusetts minimum wage law applies only to women, and not even to women in all occupations. The board can only recommend that its findings concerning wages be accepted by employers. The law is what it is. The shock to the community is due to the sordid meanness of the richest university in the world in throwing 20 poor scrubwomen out of work for the sake of two cents an hour...
...disinterested view of basic problems was taken by Henry Cabot Lodge, grandson of the late great Senator from Massachusetts, in an article "Our Failure in the Philippines" in the January Harpers. An experienced newsgatherer, Grandson Lodge last year toured the world. In the Philippines, he says, he had a shock...
...George Mortimer Pullman, and proved almost an instantaneous success despite the pessimistic opinion of railroad men who thought that the public would never pay the extra charge for Pullman's extra comfort. It was Pullman who substituted folding berths for lumber camp bunks, who introduced shock-absorbing springs, carpeted floors, uniformed attendants. Soon Pullman's Palace Cars had been adopted by the Michigan Central, the Great Western, the New York Central. Although many railroads attempted to install their own sleeping car service, Pullman Palaces, with constantly improved and patented features, were so superior that the roads finally gave...