Word: sowers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BESSEMER, Ala. -- Approximately 350 men were idle today after Works Progress Administration employs constructing a storm sower in Roosevelt Park struck in protest of an order that a worker must both load and push his wheelbarrow. Previously each wheelbarrow had a crew of two men--one to load and one to push...
...Charlie Chan in Paris," with Warner Oland and a mediocre supporting cast, pulls itself up by the bootstraps from the sludge of the usual detective thriller by a feeble tug. Replete with the Paramount Paris sower set, the Paramount Paris hotels, policemen and nightclubs, the plot alone has the virtue of making this an entertaining picture, Typical shots--a lame masked man peeking over window ledges. A gloved hand poking the muzzle of a gun through a crack in a door, a spurt of flame, a clutched hand, female screams . . . certainly not the equal of the immortal "Thin...