Word: wagoneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cattle guard and the culvert over the first irrigation ditch. Over a second, third and fourth, all graded as the ditch beds are above the valley here. Now to step on it. First mile gone, slow down for another grade culvert, the second mile nearly a straightaway. Indian wagon raising an infernal dust is soon past. A glance to the left at the sun setting over cotton fields and scattered palms, bare purple mountains in the distant background. She's doing 58. Cut the gas for the turn into the irrigation plant enclosure. No pump Diesels throbbing, so Doran...
...bewhiskered colleague in arms, Cavalry General Budenny, and jovial Soviet Education Minister Bubnov. All three big Reds brought their wives. They sailed up the Golden Horn escorted by a squadron of the Red Fleet, disembarked amid thunderous salutes at Istanbul (once Constantinople) and went to sleep in a luxurious Wagon-Lit which carried them 300 mi. up to Ankara (once Angora), the hill-surrounded capital which President Kemal has built at a cost of more than $75,000,000. He never felt safe at Istanbul, too easily menaced by the Great Powers' war boats...
...Smith, Washington, D. C.'s tremendous contribution to radio, and that other Washington musician, small, blue-eyed William Hartman Woodin, Secretary of the Treasury. Young William Curtis Bok, who presided at the speakers' table, .asked Maestro Stokowski and his men to play Mr. Woodin's Covered Wagon suite. The Secretary of the Treasury beamed modestly throughout the performance, then made a little speech: "When I heard my poor music so wonderfully played by Prince Stokowski and his men, I thought, 'There is music in the Treasury and, I hope, harmony.' . . . We are pioneering with...
There is a humour in this plan that cannot but be welcome to those of us who have been wondering how nine million unemployed can be loaded back on to a groaning industrial wagon without the immediate expansion, or inflation, of credit. We can issue for a moment from the praying chamber and look upon the 200 platted farms. They will reassure us. In them, surely, must lie the key to our dilemma, the happy touchstone of our hopes and quietus to our fears. The nine million of which the 200,000 are only a small part need not encumber...
...Connors' barroom. Brodie wins the bet. Chuck Connors thinks he did it dishonestly, gives him a thrashing on an East River barge. The Bowery ends with a reconciliation between Connors and Brodie. They are off to Cuba together, with Swipes concealed in the rumble seat of a gun-wagon...