Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fran cisco $40,000,000 worth of cargo stood unmoved in the dockyards while in the bay 61 loaded freighters lay idle and deserted. Ship owners were losing more than $100,000 a day. At Portland the docks creaked with unloaded steel, meat, fruit and vegetables. A Japanese silk ship waited ten days to unload its cargo, finally sailed back home. Along San Francisco's Embarcadero strikers picketed all day, all night, 1,000 at a time. To break the strike snipping companies hired college boys, paid them $15 a day. At Seattle 15 men boarded a tug, cornered...
...Persia sped a motorcade with Riza Shah Pahlevi. onetime Cossack trooper, riding as King of Kings in a limousine upholstered in champagne-colored silk with gold and jeweled Persian crowns in bas-relief upon each door. Turkish artillery honored His Majesty at the frontier with a salute from enlightened President Mustafa Kemal Pasha's best European cannon...
Yellow are the racing colors, the motor cars, and the silk hats of footmen in the service of "The Yellow Earl," Britain's beloved sporting peer the Earl of Lonsdale...
Cotton mills were to slash operations 25% for twelve weeks to permit textile consumption to catch up with production (see p. 15). The silk industry had already taken a one-week holiday. Chemical prices were soft. Many a producer was cramming his warehouses with new goods at top speed for fear a strike would suddenly overtake him and his plant...
...Ross's hand. First lightweight champion in history to win the welterweight championship as well. Barney Ross (Bernard Rossofsky) had his first fist fight when he was eight years old, grew up on Chicago's West Side where his father ran a delicatessen, has two managers, wears silk pajamas, fancies himself a songwriter...