Word: slimmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When, following the War, the first few scattered bus lines strung short networks along rural roads, trolley cars, interurban electric lines and railroads had already pre-empted the best U. S. transportation routes. Slim indeed seemed the prospects of the infant bus industry. Last year the onetime infant had driven trolleys entirely out of 434 cities, had $690,000,000 worth of equipment, operated 1,389.000 miles of route, carried over 3,000,000,000 passengers, and its 4,780 bus companies had an aggregate income of $467,000,000. Of the 124,000 busses in service...
Homer Martin, slim, bespectacled head of the United Automobile Workers, is a preacher by training, and after he won the national hop, step & jump championship at 22 he was invariably called the "Leaping Parson." From the Leeds Baptist Church on the outskirts of Kansas City, where the deacons thought his labor gospel somewhat apocryphal, he leaped to a Chevrolet assembly line, then to leadership of a Kansas City local and finally in one tremendous leap to the front of C.I.O.'s noisiest, most turbulent union. Last week President Martin found himself in a spot from which he could...
Some readers, baffled by the famine-price set on this slim, 81-page volume (all the more remarkable in view of Steinbeck's proletarian themes), may jump to the wrong conclusion that The Red Pony contains erotic or esoteric matter too caviarish for the general. On the contrary, The Red Pony is neither scandalous nor abstruse but of an innocence that almost qualifies it for juvenile readers. It consists of three episodes based on Author Steinbeck's youth. Central character is a healthy, shy, towheaded, 10-year-old farm boy named Jody Tiflin. Given a red pony colt...
...disease the surf began pounding the vessel to pieces. Hearing of the disaster, hundreds of citizens hastened to the sands to render aid. But good intentions meant nought, for before their frosted eyes a cold drama was approaching its climax. The crew, clinging to the rigging--which were giant, slim icicles, slowly were freezing to death or falling with cries into the water. After many hours the Nantucketers succeeded in shooting lines over the vessel, but the men on board were too frozen to pull the attached hawser. More dreary hours passed, while one after another of the shipwrecked...
Included in the 17 men who reported for the first session were three lettermen, Captain Ulysses Lupien, Bob Gannett, and Slim Curtis. Other veteran are expected noon...