Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generation is there visible anything-ex-cept the geniality-of the extraordinary character of whom William Randolph Hearst was the only son. Across the plains and mountains from a farm in fat Missouri went hawk-nosed George Hearst among 250,000 other young men drawn by the California gold strike. He was one of the handful who struck it, and kept it, and multiplied it richly. With mule and pack horse he roamed hardily from Alaska to Mexico. He went back to Missouri for his bride, patrician Phoebe Apperson, descended from Carolina-Virginia stock. His mines, ranches, banks, race horses...
...this week, Loughlin will undoubtedly experience considerable difficulty in his pitching duel with Captain Ray White, of Columbia, who has lost only two Intercollegiate League contests in three years. This season, in his first two games, the Columbia leader has made a record of 16 scoreless innings and 18 strike-outs...
...arbitrary control of the conditions of employment with the nation already economically sick will definitely result in a postponement of recovery. Such a control will strike at the producer as well as labor. The manufacturer must choose between one of two alternatives: he must either reorganize his system on a part-time-shift basis which will be costly, or he can restrict his total business using the present personnel on the thirty-hour basis. Both represent a handicap. As for the effect on labor, the present legislation will force a shortening of hours in many industries, and there will result...
...strike at cold. Professor Giauque used gadolinium sulfate octahydrate, a colorless crystal substance derived from a rare earth metal. This he cooled to about -306.4° F., when he began wrenching the molecules with a huge magnet which University of California owns. Liquid helium absorbed and withdrew the magnetically generated heat. At -459.1° Professor Giauque was stopped, regretting that he could not stride the stupendously difficult little step of .3° which would carry him to Absolute Zero where substances should retain no more heat, where molecular activity should completely cease. where all things should be coldly inert...
When the first day of Chicago's school strike ended some students had been sent back into classrooms by their parents, but it was still the biggest and most exciting school strike Chicago had ever seen. Next day the strikers were fewer in number, but distributed among a larger number of schools. The Chicago Parent-Teachers Association worked to quiet the pupils. Twenty-seven youths were arrested for inciting and picketing. Superintendent Bogan pointed out that anyone over 16 who interferes with school sessions may be fined $100, that parents of truants under 16 may be fined from...