Word: spedding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farther north, another column took Suomussalmi and turned southward toward lisalmi, a rail junction in the centre of Finland. Still farther north, a third column bore down on the roadhead of Kuusamo. Most daring of all, the fourth division crossed the low mountains to Kuolajärvi and thence sped westward past Kemijärvi toward Rovaniemi, which lies on Finland's highway to the Arctic. From Rovaniemi this column might strike southward to Kemi and Tornio, thereby commanding not only the Arctic highway but Finland's rail supply line from Sweden...
Other industries have borne similar loads of taxes and wages but few have had to face such entrenched unions as the railroad brotherhoods, which resolutely resist the march of technological progress. Even when improvements sped up schedules the brotherhoods prevented any savings and successfully insisted on "featherbedding" which means paying crews on a mileage basis. They draw eight hours pay for 100 miles on a freight, 150 miles on a passenger train. Many "featherbed" crews now draw eight hours pay for runs of less than four hours...
...tall young man, dressed in a general's uniform, accompanied by an aide de camp and an elderly statesman, hopped into his car at Brussels after dinner one evening last week and sped through northern Belgium into The Netherlands. Shortly before 11 o'clock the car raced up the Noordiende, one of The Hague's main streets, and stopped abruptly before a small but stately white Palace...
...square feet of floor space, its two miles of shop frontage. Sixteen hundred companies and their subsidiaries, 25,000 people, lived their business and professional lives there. One hundred and ninety-one elevators, some of them moving at the rate of 1,400 feet a minute, sped this population up & down...
Repeating the gathering that last year sped the football team on the way to victory in its last four games, a rally will be held on Soldiers Field tomorrow afternoon after the squad has finished its final home practice...