Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assess his 500,000 United Mine Workers $1 each per month for two months. Last week, to build a war chest which would prime the No. 1 U. S. union for any emergency, he announced such assessments. The emergency might be a nation-wide bituminous coal strike, operators having warned last week that they would up the work week from 35 to 40 hours when the current contract expires March 31. Or it might be a steel strike. Some 250 steel company-union leaders rallied at a missionary meeting of Leader Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization in Pittsburgh last...
...motor coupled to a McCormick Deering tractor gear box and mounted on an expanded automobile frame. The four wheels are air-tight aluminum drums on which are mounted the largest rubber tires ever made for commercial use. Designed by Goodyear, they are 10 ft. high, 3 ft. wide, have a normal pressure of 6 lb. per sq. in. Both axles are pivoted so that each wheel can rise two feet without distorting the frame. There are ten forward speeds, six reverse. All four wheels are powered. In water or on marsh, traction is provided by sections of inflated hose strapped...
Over the door of the old building were two bronze eagles to symbolize the paper's name, its wide flight for news. Under the Eagle's eagles passed many a capable newsman, such famed Brooklyn editors as Dr. St. Clair McKelway and Dr. Arthur Millidge Howe, who wrote sober, sensible Eagle editorials for 38 years...
...Brown snow machine made the wintersports show possible, Hannes Schneider was what made it profitable. To him, as head of the famed Arlberg Skiing School, more than to any other single person in the world, is attributable skiing's current world-wide boom. In Stuben, Austria, near the Tyrolean border, Hannes Schneider grew up when Alpine skiing, imported from Norway where it had become a major sport 20 years before, was in its infancy. Norwegian skiers skied standing up straight. After he had learned to ski on barrel staves, used them to win a race for which the prize...
...Lieut. Niki in Oscar Straus's A Waltz Dream. Money saved therefrom took him to Italy where he studied under Caruso's old teacher Vincenzo Lombardi. Cynical old Lombardi said he would make better progress with an Italian name. Translated into Eduardo di Giovanni, he cut a wide singing swath through Europe, kept the name until he returned to the U. S. in 1919 to sing with the Chicago Opera...