Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night rates resulted from his of wire traffic loads...
...Swiss authorities declared that an estimated 140 Jews per day had been "clandestinely" fleeing from Germany into Switzerland, announced that barbed wire is being strung along the frontier to stem this "Jewish flood." Jewish refugee camps in Switzerland were reported jampacked last week. The camp at Diepoldsau hoisted a banner reading: "THANKS TO THE SWISS PEOPLE...
...Project's old building on Washington's G Street, has planned and planted centres from Harlem to Key West and in ten western States. In all cases the project starts by getting the community itself worked up over the idea. Pleasant Mr. Parker or his live-wire field man, Daniel Deffenbacher, arrives in town, confers with everybody from the mayor down. When, and only when, a local steering committee has raised a minimum of $2,500 and has acquired a building deemed suitable by the Project, the Project consents to help plan the centre and recruit a staff...
Kentucky-born Leane Zugsmith's Summer Soldier is about Harlan County. She calls it Chew County. Seven slightly screwy liberals join a committee to investigate conditions in Chew. Five of them, riding down in a stuffy train, get a wire from their chairman, Hankemer, who> has gone ahead: Do not get off at Chew get off at Zara...
...play gone stale, down to his last $391.23, Philip Whitlock abandons his retreat in the Canadian woods, goes to visit the Marstons, owners of the wire factory in a one-industry town in Connecticut, and stays on in their guest house. The fateful Marstons are a gruesome miniature of the capitalist world as left-wing thinkers see it. After seeing a great deal of it, Philip decides this environment is too much for him. But on the day he intends to clear out for Oregon he gets involved in an eviction, lands in the hospital with a fractured skull...