Word: burial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bullets one night last February, killing his son and seriously wounding his wife, told the Committee about the strings to that. Harlan miners, said he, average about $75 per month. Of this, 15% is deducted for rent on company-owned houses, fees to company-hired physicians, contributions to company burial funds. After an additional sum has been deducted to settle his accounts at high-priced company stores, the miner gets the balance in scrip good only at those stores. If he wants cash, his scrip is discounted...
...caused its creation. Rolling in the trough of the sea with a bleak grey sky above and the broken hull of the Titanic below, the Mendota lay at rest with her 90 officers & men lining her quarter-deck in full dress while Commander Henry W. Coyle Jr. read the burial service. A rifle squad fired three volleys, and the Mendota steamed away through the spume leaving a lone wreath bobbing on the waves...
...their $2,060,000 common property. They formed a corporation under the laws of Delaware, issued one share of common (voting) stock to every adult, issued preferred stock in proportion to years of service. They now work for wages. Nevertheless, Amana Society still provides free medical care and burial, gives its members a 10% discount at general stores, a 665% discount at drug stores. Chief Amana products: fine woolen blankets...
...Novelist Hemingway (gruesome, gory, hyper-cynical) and Journalist Hemingway (objective, conscientious and in good taste), were struck by his description of signs of Italian valor on the battlefield of "little Caporetto" or Brihuega last week. "The scrub oak woods," cabled Journalist Hemingway, "are still full of Italian dead that burial squads have not yet reached. Tank tracks lead to where they died, not as cowards but defending skillfully constructed machine-gun and automatic-rifle positions, where the tanks found them and where they still lie. The track of a tropical hurricane leaves a capricious swath of complete destruction...
...York City medical schools have for the instruction of their 495 medical freshmen, the pick of the 30,000 unknown who die annually in the metropolis. The surplus dead are placed in plain coffins and hauled by barge to one of the East River islands for burial...