Word: starters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capitalizing on the publicity his beacons won to carry out vital reforms. Shocking is the fact that two-thirds of Britain's boasted "Great North Road" from London to Scotland is too narrow for two lanes of traffic. Hundreds of millions must be spent, but for a starter some $25,000,000 is to put 20,000 road workmen into jobs by next autumn...
...Government bought some 7,000,000 starving cattle, turned most of them into beef for the unemployed. Last week Secretary Wallace ordered the process begun again, allotted $5,000,000 as a starter, planned to buy up to 1,000,000 head. Meantime, the Interstate Commerce Commission authorized sharp cuts in freight rates on live stock shipped out of famine areas...
...several weeks of nervous vacillation, had finally gone over to a group of insurgent A. F. of L. unions combined as the Committee for Industrial Organization. It was these A. F. of L. insurgents who put up the men (Steel Workers Organizing Committee) and money ($500,000 as a starter) to organize Steel. To be depended on for good general advice were such Steel Workers Organizing Committeemen as Julius Hochman, Socialist vice president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers which vainly supported the 1919 steel strike with $60,000; rough & ready Socialist Leo Krzycki of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers...
...famed Tommy Milton climbed into a coupe, crossed the starting line followed by 33 low-slung little racers, humming along in ranks of three, spaced 100 feet apart. After one slow "pacing lap," the coupe pulled off the track and the starter waved a green flag. Then, with a roar of opening throttles, the 500-mile Memorial Day automobile race began...
Four hours 35 minutes later the starter flagged the field again. Slowing down and pushing up their goggles, the drivers of the 15 cars that had finished the race slowly became conscious of a roar other than the one made by their motors, that of the crowd to salute the winner. Louis Meyer of Huntington Park, Calif., who in 1933 became, with Tommy Milton, the only two-time winner of the Indianapolis race, had won it for the third time. His average speed (109.069 m.p.h.) was a new record for the event.. Driver Meyer waved three bruised fingers...