Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vividness and punch Big Blow is another Federal Theatre feat comparable to last season's Haiti. Dealing with the Florida Crackers-blood cousins to Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road poor whites-it paints a frightening picture of ignorance, prejudice, cruelty: the natives' Calibanesque way of life, their hatred of ""furriners"," their venom toward Negroes, their savage Holy Roller hysteria...
Since 1795, when Louisiana's Etienne de Bore grew the first U.S. sugar cane for commercial use, cane crops have been harvested, like cotton, by hand. Negroes mow their way through the cane fields with knives like tropical machetes. Efforts have been made to mechanize the reaping of both cotton and sugar. Several cotton-pickers have been invented which have proved that they can pick cotton, but their practical efficiency and adaptability have been seriously disputed, and they have so far made no visible inroads on the South's labor economy...
...week. Admiral Land was pleased to remove these barnacles from Dollar Lines' hulk and to announce that RFC would provide $2,500,000 for new working capital, that the Commission would provide $2.000,000 to repair twelve of the line's ships, $3,000,000 more by way of annual subsidy to meet foreign competition. New Dollar Lines president is Joseph R. Sheehan, who resigns as the Commission's executive director. Xew Dollar Lines chairman (at a maximum salary of $25,000) is Senator William Gibbs McAdoo-who introduced the first shipping bill in Congress...
Ever since President Lewis H. Brown of Johns-Manville Corp. led the way last spring (TIME, March 21). big U.S. companies have been vying to see which could bring out the most readable financial statement, thereby prove that Big Business is not so hoggish of profits as it has been painted. Last week Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. took its turn. The nation's No. 2 maker of electrical equipment* issued a simple folder breaking down operations for the nine years 1929-1937 into one-syllable categories. Total income was $1.261.313,000. Deducting sums "paid out for materials, supplies, fuels...
...order is First the Blade, a 631-page novel of the "Sandlappers" who settled California's semi-arid San Joaquin Valley. For the first 150 pages, which move as slowly as a covered wagon slogging over the plains, it is the reader who suffers most. This beginning goes way back to the heroine's girlhood in Missouri; and although the Civil War figures in her adolescence, the only valid purpose in these tedious chapters is to let the heroine reach a marriageable age before she goes West. When she marries an ambitious farmer and goes...