Word: steams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stiff-necked high churchman is Attorney General Sir Thomas Inskip. As a great concession he had slightly modified the Bill which at first would have given to petty justices of the peace the drastic powers now conferred only on High Court justices. Knowing he had the National Government steam roller behind him, Sir Thomas frigidly declared that to enable the Crown to fight "growing organized Communist incitement" the Act is indispensable. It promptly passed the Commons 241-10-68, seemed sure to pass the Lords this week and should become...
...Secretary Ickes from the $4,400,000 Boulevard Gardens job last week was enough to turn what is left of his hair snowy white. No work had been done for two months, cost of the building was mounting daily, idle workers were swelling relief rolls. Reason: carpenters and steam-fitters cannot agree who will cut recesses in the floors to lay steam pipes in the ten six-story buildings...
...sheriff led on to the kitchen, where selected prisoners were preparing the Sunday dinner. Several large steam cookers were simmering away. The size and number of them prompted an inquiry as to how many were being...
...thousand feet under the Mecsek hills near Pecs, 1,200 miners picked wearily last week at the poor coal that is Hungary's best. On the railroad sidings above were 15,000 unsold carloads of their low-grade handiwork. The mine owner, Danube Steam Navigation Co., largely British-owned, had done its best to spread work, a few hours a day per man. But that came to only $2 a week. These Magyar miners and their families were starving. It had come to the point last week where their mouths watered at sight of the fat little pit ponies...
...house was being made a target for Northern guns while the lady was busily tending the wounded inside, he exclaimed: I wish these people would let Mrs. Stevens alone!" And when Hooker's beaten army had made a safe get away after Chancellorsville, Lee exploded in a mild steam: "Why, General Pender! That is the way you young men always do. You allow these people to get away. I tell you what to do, but you don't do it!" Author Freeman's half-length portrait shows a kindly but aloof gentleman, a believe...