Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much? More than a year ago, the Lehigh Valley announced on menu cards on the Black Diamond, the New Yorker and other trains that diners might smoke should they so desire. N. W. PRINGLE Passenger Traffic Manager Lehigh Valley Railroad Co. New York City Further evidence of the spread of smoking among U. S. women: last week a new rule was passed at Joliet Penitentiary giving women inmates smoking rights equal...
...contract will be spent on car and tractor plants built for the latest type of straight line mass production. Three hundred motor vehicles per day will represent not peak but conservative average production. From Austingrad skilled Communist service station men will go out to spread through pastoral Russia the gospel of mechanics and motive power. In the U. S. the Austin Co. has laid out the famed proving grounds of General Motors, built a foundry for Cadillac, put up in record time the Oakland-Pontiac plant. Similarly in Austingrad there will be a proving ground, foundries for grey iron, malleable...
...correspondents for his newspapers and his alone (in the U. S.) were carried on the flight. When Commander Dr. Hugo Eckener steamed up New York Harbor last fortnight on an official welcoming tug after getting back to Lakehurst, eager Hearst photographers snapped him and snapped him; eager Hearst editors spread the photographs on flaring Hearst pages in the grand finale of Publisher Hearst's world "scoop" of the flight...
...months ago workers were organized by A. F. of L. agents in the cotton mill of Marion Manufacturing Co., owned by Spinster Sallie Baldwin of Baltimore. When the union hands struck, the mill closed down. Unionization spread to the mills of the Clinchfield Co. which also shut down temporarily. When Clinchfield tried to reopen, strikers massed before the gates, manhandled the superintendent. Guardsmen were sent in to restore order. Mill owners commenced to eject union strikers from company houses...
...fighting that began between Jews and Arabs at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall (TIME, Aug. 26) spread last week throughout Palestine, then inflamed fierce tribesmen of the Moslem countries which face the Holy Land...