Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just as tempers were rising, one Dr. Soltan Klars, municipal physician, tooted past a group of angry workmen in a new and shiny automobile. That was all that was needed. With howls of rage they sprang on the running board, beat the frightened doctor, set the car afire...
Karl Payer, Socialist Deputy who had helped organize the park mass meeting, suddenly grew frightened at the turn of events, tried to calm the rioters. He had to flee for his life. Like locusts the workmen swept down Andrássy Street, looting shops, smashing windows. The three most expensive restaurants in Budapest, the Edison, the Western, Weingruber's (beloved of plump monocle-eyed Ferenc Molnar) were gutted. Piling chairs, crates, table tops to make street barricades the mob raised the old polysyllabic clarion of Communism, "Long Live the Dictatorship of the Proletariat...
...number of gigantic public utility corporations in Britain Dominions, backed by the British government and the various Dominion governments. These corporations would be granted large tracts of land at specially favorable rates with the understanding that the new corporations would create new self-supporting communities for British workmen, technical and agricultural, to emigrate...
...England's unemployment situation: the falling off of emigration. Britons are unemployed at home not because English industry is doing badly (despite Indian boycotts and U. S. and German competition, more than a million more men are employed in British factories than were in 1921) but because British workmen who used to emigrate by the hundreds of thousands annually are either unable (foreign quota laws) or unwilling to leave the United Kingdom. Chief drawback to the scheme is that it once more passes responsibility for unemployment from Great Britain to the Dominions, who are not at all anxious to increase...
...clarity." The "red snow" had sterilized humanity. With all the restraints of care for posterity at once removed, civilization began to disintegrate. Racial hatreds flamed and religious wars burst out. Fanatics seized governments. The U. S. sent a crusading army of ten million into central Asia. Economic systems faltered. Workmen abandoned their labors. Women became untamed sexual aggressors. Problems that would occupy 20 volumes are dismissed in sentences. Nations perish in a paragraph, continents in a chapter. Each phase of the debacle is outlined with unflagging vigor and a wild flow of words. Finally Phaeton Andrews, last man to survive...