Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blast after deafening blast rocked the neighborhood, and with each blow the sky flashed. brighter. Flames spurted up all over the village, spreading fast on an angry north wind into the neighboring factory town of Hirakata...
...Mexican politics. Leftist money was expected to go down on General Francisco Múgica, an ardent Left-winger and Cardenas follower. The expropriation of the foreign-owned oil properties year ago, however, caused a terrific loss of Government revenue, cut down production in many industries, led to sky-high prices, and, in some cases, lower wages. Ever since there has been a growing desire among many Mexicans for a more moderate policy than President Cárdenas', and best-informed opinion last week was that the well-organized labor and peasant blocs had sensed this desire and accordingly...
...functioned to the satisfaction of participants who have drawn out $400,000,000 in unemployment benefits since the program started operation. But for old folks, Social Security, which will not begin paying monthly old-age insurance benefits for those over 65 until 1942, is still pie in the sky. The business of the witnesses before the Doughton committee was to show how the pie could be brought down within reach without wrecking the nation's economic structure...
Associate Professor of English at Columbia University, Van Doren is well known as a poet, critic, and editor. He has written studies of Thoreau, Dryden, and Edwin Arlington Robinson. His own books of verse include: "Spring Thunder," "7 P. M.," "Now the Sky," 'A Winter Diary," "The Last Look," and others. He is editor of the "Oxford Book of American Prose," "American Poets 1930-1930," "An Autobiography of America," and "An Anthology of World Poetry...
...centre in an open court, a colonnade of 48 timberwork columns, four abreast and twelve in a row, rises 100 feet to symbolize the States of the Union. At once simple, honest, impressive and cheap, this stunt utilizes the sky and water of the Bay. On each side of the columns Architect Pflueger designed other open courts, surrounded by a light and trimly built structure of four-by-eight-foot plywood panels, a strong, beautiful surface, more native than stucco to forested California. About 20 nations of the Pacific, from Peru to Japan, are building more or less authentic pavilions...