Word: spectacularity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Motors assembly lines were rolling again last week, but the North Chicago fracas furnished spectacular proof that the greatest issue raised by the Motor War of 1937 was still far from settled. As a disturber of U. S. peace, the Sit-Down Strike had just begun to fight. In Detroit alone, eight small factories were held by a total of 2,600 sit-downers, mostly women. President Walter Fry of Detroit's Fry Products Inc. (automobile seat covers) thought up a new twist when he sat down with his 150 sitting employes, ordered dinner for the crowd, promised...
...turn and the post-War German shepherds, fashions in dogs have fluctuated almost as frequently and inexplicably as fashions in dress. Katharine Cornell's co-starring Flush in The Barretts of Wimpole Street may have had something to do with the cocker spaniel's recent spectacular rise in the U. S. A more likely explanation, considering its simultaneous rise in Britain, is growing appreciation of the flop-eared little dog's all-around qualities as a pet as well as a gun dog. Playful, gentle and notable even among dogs for his panting, big-eyed devotion...
...Parker, now 59, left the American for a $45,000 a year job in the Hearst general management, went on from there into an independent career as spectacular as it was unorthodox. He soon was heading the Co-operative Society of America, Inc. which took in $11,000,000, had a top membership of 90,000, bought a life insurance company, a number of dairies, several packing houses, 190 grocery stores...
...cyclical groove, which is about twice as long as that of the general business cycle, the building industry last year recovered to about the 1931 level. Since the peak of the last boom was hit not in 1929 but in the middle 1920s this recovery was spectacular only in comparison with its incredible Depression prostration. F. W. Dodge Corp.'s figure for all types of construction in 1936 in the 37 States east of the Rocky Mountains was $2,675,000,000 as against $1,844,000,000 the year before, $1,255,000,000 in 1933. Residential building...
...most of his opponents, frequently doubled up to box twice in a meet in two different classes. As a professional pugilist he was also a success, and had dropped but one bout when he decided to accept Harvard's offer and take up a more secure if less spectacular mode of life...