Word: thrall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brief period last week the Chicago Board of Trade supplanted the New York Stock Exchange as the dominant U. S. speculative force; the Pit held the Floor in thrall. Stock quotations closely followed grain prices, and the procession was almost steadily downward until the last day of trading...
...startling and dismaying. Their statistics revealed that 132,628 steelmen, or 53.4% of the whole number investigated, were still working ten hours or more a day. Of these 16,610 worked twelve hours, 5,320 worked eleven hours, the rest worked ten hours. The seven-day week held in thrall 66,712 steelmen, or 26.9% of the total number. These figures, abrupt and impersonal, called up before the churchmen visions of a race still living with hardly any leisure save sleep, spending lives in a dark servitude scarcely more desirable than actual slavery. To the more aggressive divines it seemed...