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Word: wheelbarrows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marriage. To make money he wrote a horror story, Sanctuary. It was rejected, too. He got a job shoveling coal at the Oxford power plant for $100 a month, working from 6 p. m. to 6 a. m. From midnight until 4 a. m. he wrote, using an upturned wheelbarrow for a desk. On it he wrote As I Lay Dying, rewrote Sanctuary, laid out his series of connected novels dealing with the mythical, haunted, decadent Southern town of Jefferson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: When the Dam Breaks | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

BESSEMER, Ala. -- Approximately 350 men were idle today after Works Progress Administration employs constructing a storm sower in Roosevelt Park struck in protest of an order that a worker must both load and push his wheelbarrow. Previously each wheelbarrow had a crew of two men--one to load and one to push...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 11/3/1938 | See Source »

London's American Chamber of Commerce heard William Hulme Lever Viscount Leverhulme, governor of world-spraddling Lever Brothers, Ltd. (Lux, Lifebuoy Soap), tell about the perplexity of efficiency experts over a certain laborer, the only worker in a factory to pull, not push, his wheelbarrow. Asked why, the laborer said: "Well, guv'nor, hi 'ates the ight of the bloomin' thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 24, 1938 | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...Mayer). Sally (Joan Crawford) is a fabulously rich U. S. heiress engaged to Igor (Ivan Lebedeff), fabulously torpid European fortune hunter. She leaves him waiting at the church to run off with Michael (Clark Gable), fabulously adroit U. S. reporter. After junketing in Europe by airplane, delivery truck and wheelbarrow, they spend a night in the palace at Fontainebleau. Michael then tells Sally simultaneously that 1) he loves her and 2) he has been using their escapade to make headlines in the U. S. Sally takes up with Michael's gullible rival reporter (Franchot Tone). Michael follows her, effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 7, 1936 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...morning last week Enoch Kuklinskie and his father were working with pick & wheelbarrow about 65 ft. below the surface when they heard the rotten timbering begin to crack. They filled up the wheelbarrow once more. On the way out Father Kuklinskie heard the earth breaking up over his head, felt it falling on his shoulders. He ran, dragging his pick to safety. But in one glance backward he saw Son Enoch flop under the wheelbarrow as the avalanche of coal and rock descended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Coal & Irony ^ | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

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