Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Blue Fleet had its feelers spread far out. The cruisers sped ahead, seeking everywhere to touch the enemy. Following this, came another widespread scouting line of destroyers, followed by the submarines and last by the battleships. Every nerve of the Blue Fleet was straining, straining for a single contact that would tell the tale of where the Black Fleet was coming onward...
When asked about the stand of laborunions in the matter of Communism, Mr. Green declared that in its present form it is the chief enemy of labor. Labor is fighting desperately against the spread of Russian propaganda for it realizes that Communism in the place of monarchy is simply tyranny of the Communist leaders instead of the tyranny of the Czar...
...hysteria for the repression of minorities is dying a hard death, Employers still find public support for the breaking of strikes through resort to laws against criminal syndicalism. Any protest by labor unions is proof positive of the spread of sinister influence. And if cries are heard from the red or yellow press--the more need for stern suppression...
...manufacturers of the methods employed in spinning and weaving artificial silk fibre, and consequently in the appearance and wearing qualities of artificial silk fabrics. Formerly, fibre silk was used mainly for hosiery, which absorbed half this country's annual output. So widely has the demand for fibre silk spread, that today hosiery makers use only about one-fifth of the U. S.-made fibre silk...
...alarm written large upon his ordinarily phlegmatic countenance. The screams continued. He crossed the room quickly to the side of a robust woman who sat bowed over an oilcloth-covered table, screaming. He removed from her clutch a newspaper which seemed to be the cause of her extraordinary perturbation, spread it out so that the light of the kerosene lamp fell upon its crumpled front page. The woman fell silent to watch his face which, as he read, sharpened, paled with incredulous horror. The paper was a copy of the Daily News, Manhattan gum-chewers' sheetlet. In huge black...