Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beams which are bolted into place before the eyes of the audience. In robust defiance of the "pusher" (man with the blueprints), four steelworkers ride on the ball attached to the crane-hook. Only flaws in this extraordinary feat of artistic naturalism are that when the beams (actually wood) strike something they emit a hollow thump instead of a ringing clank, and that when the inevitable victim falls from the crane to his death, a ludicrous dummy is seen tumbling against the backdrop...
...airplane crash in Switzerland. A series of sketches of gold mining on the Rand, South Africa, it is based on Nesbitt's experiences as an engineer there in 1912 and is written with considerable literary distinction. It is noteworthy for its account of the great miners' strike of 1913, for its sketches of Nesbitt's fellow-miners, for some poetic but subdued descriptions of life 7,000 ft. underground...
With word that various Princeton Wayfarers were forced to return to New Jersey by train instead of the Cape Cod and Raritan Canal route for which they had paid passage, the tentacles of the west coast shipping strike reach far and wide. Labor disputes are tolerable only so long as they keep on the private battle ground between employer and employee. For the minute the public welfare is put in jeopardy, as occurred in an San Francisco two summers ago, the strike inevitably topples over with the weight of popular disfavor, and both management and labor lose the gains that...
...present quarrel which centers about control of the "hiring halls"--the clearing houses for all maritime employment, the unions would play a more sensible hand by keeping their strike from assuming gigantic proportions. A recurrence of the terrifying tactics of the general strike of 1934 can only breed the fear and distrust of the people as a whole and alienate the opinion of those who might logically support labor's claims. The principles for which the unions are crusading, namely fair treatment in hiring employees and decent wages and living conditions for seamen, are as sound as Gibraltar...
...Rice, Dr. Parran and every other responsible social hygienist in the country admit that they cannot strike their enemy dead unless they first demolish the social custom which forbids public discussion of venereal diseases. Nowhere is this taboo more rigidly enforced than on the screen or in radio. Cinema producers are well aware that any reference to the subject, regardless of good motives or public purpose, will only make trouble for themselves. Columbia Broadcasting will not permit the word "syphilis" to go out over the air from its stations. National Broad casting this year gingerly permitted Dr. Parran...