Word: wagons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much of this generosity was inspired by the Roosevelt landslide was impossible to determine. Certainly the rush to raise wages that developed in industry after Nov. 3 looked suspiciously like a hasty effort to climb aboard the band wagon of a President who is deeply indebted to Labor. Only big industry to get aboard ahead of time was Packing, which upped its scales 7% one week before Election. Steel hopped on as soon as returns were in. Wage boosts followed in the textile and automobile industries, in hundreds of miscellaneous manufacturing enterprises throughout the land. By last week United Press...
...with an international ovation for the winner. In Berlin the President was hailed as an exponent of the führerprinzip ("leadership principle") of Der Führer Adolf Hitler. In Moscow a high Soviet official cried: ''We are extremely gratified!" Rome climbed on the band wagon with eulogistic comparisons of President Roosevelt to Dictator Mussolini and Fascist editors recalled his refusal to join the League of Nations in Sanctions against Italy. Geneva newspapers said that not since Woodrow Wilson has any U. S. President been so nearly in sympathy with the League. In Paris, the Cabinet...
...layman browsing about the Truck Show: a huge, streamlined, refrigerated milk truck with a little propeller inside the tank to keep the milk slowly circulating so it will not be churned into butter; the Diesel engines newly introduced in U. S. trucks; a semi-streamlined, green police patrol wagon for $2,000. To the truckman, more exciting was the talk on all sides of the current truck boom. In 1935, 3,655,705 trucks ran over U. S. highways - slightly more than in 1930. Last year total sales in the U. S. and Canada were 732,005 trucks. Said Truckman...
...emerges as part of the background of Chicago's South Side. A careful reader of the Studs Lonigan trilogy and of Gas-House McGinty would learn from these books that young Danny O'Neill is a good baseball player, that old Jim O'Neill is a wagon dispatcher who quotes Shakespeare, that Danny eventually escapes his environment. But he would get few intimations that James Farrell intended to explore their history as soon as his long study of Studs Lonigan's disintegration...
...shown occupying the centre of the same grim stage that the Lonigans recently vacated. Although they are poorer than the Lonigans, they are much like them in temperament: a quarreling, short-tempered, superstitious crew, constantly fighting among themselves and lapsing into dreamy reveries, the men regularly going on the wagon and as regularly falling off, the women snarling at the children, cursing the men, slandering each other. Consequently, while A World I Never Made does not deepen or add perspective to James Farrell's picture of the life of Chicago's lower-class Irish population, it widens...