Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Such a tax would strike directly at the memorial idea to which civilization owes many of its enduring monuments, paintings, sculptures, buildings, schools, museums, parks...
...area to area and never put things more strongly than when he was Bishop of Pittsburgh. There, in 1920, he fought the steelmasters, kept them from unseating him when he urged an 8-hour day, a 6-day week. As chairman of an investigating committee during the great steel strike, Bishop McConnell turned in a report which was a forerunner of the Steel Report made by the Federal Council of Churches...
...factory, estimated U. S. cigaret consumption for 1934 at an all-time new high of 125,000,000,000. Many a cigaret smoker was surprised to find that conservatively advertised Chesterfield, with sales of 34,500,000,000, had outsold garishly advertised Camel (33,800,000,000) and Lucky Strike (33,000,000,000). Old Gold was a poor fourth with 5,500,000,000. Total consumption of the leading four was up 8.4% from last year, but nearly 7,000,000,000 below the 1930 peak. Chief reason for this drop, according to Standard Statistics, was competition from...
...rate of 2,000,000 per year. But Chevrolet has outsold Ford in six of the past eight years, and the last million-car year at River Rouge was 1930. Last year Mr. Ford had a head start over Chevrolet, which was delayed by the tool & die strike. Yet in combined truck and passenger car sales Chevrolet again nosed out Ford. The most famed U. S, industrial box score (estimated for 1934 on eleven-month domestic sales) reads as follows...
Maintaining that teachers who can stimulate students to valuable work of their own may not accomplish as much of enduring educational value as those who strike their classes less impressively, Dean Murdock in his annual report to the President, released yesterday, discusses the importance of scholarship...