Word: solids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost two years the great railroads of the land have held to their 1929 pledge to President Hoover not to cut wages during Depression.* Last week occurred the first major crack in their solid front. New York Central admitted that it was dickering with its 115,000 employes (December 1929: 170,061) to accept voluntarily a 10% pay reduction for one year. Reason: the Interstate Commerce Commission's refusal to grant the carriers a flat 15% freight rate increase...
...Civil War (then famed gun: the Harper's Ferry musket). His three sons Philo, Samuel and Eliphalet Jr., carried on, but 23 years after the Civil War Marcellus Hartley bought control of the company, and his grandson Marcellus Hartley Dodge is now its chairman. Remington first developed the hammerless, solid-breech, repeating shotgun and the hammerless unloading shotgun, introduced the paper shotgun shell and the metallic cartridge in the U. S. It made the deadly little Derringer short barreled pistol, carried in the sash of many a gambler. Newest Remington shells and cartridges are Kleanbore, with potassium chlorate eliminated from...
Eleven men of Minneapolis went to their homes last week to tell great tales of Woman's Obstinacy. For a solid week they had been locked in the jury room, deliberating over a ton of evidence containing 1,500,000 words & figures. From the evidence and previous testimony they reached the conclusion that Wilbur Burton Foshay, onetime Northwest utility tycoon, and six associates were guilty of using the mails to defraud. Not of this opinion was No. 12, one Mrs. Genevieve Clark, who stoutly held out for acquittal. After a week of argument, some 200 ballots, the jurors told...
...Everybody knows I have a perfect torso. . . . Painters now, they're more on inspiration, but sculptors are solid. They know what they want, and a girl that can't give them the flesh is no good to them...
...outcome of the recent general election in England is a conclusive proof of the fundamental soundness of the English nation. The National party, which is itself overwhelmingly Conservative, swept all opposition aside, and demonstrated that in time of stress that the solid citizens realized the futility of Socialistic Utopia, and reverted to the sound Conservatism of Gladstone...