Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Orange machinery will glare conspicuously against jet black floors to eliminate accidents. So that his men will hustle, Mr. Simonds is having his factory walls painted light green, a combination of energizing grass green, ultra-violet-reflecting blue, cleanly white. Because manpower tires, lags behind machinepower, the Simonds sawmakers will listen to an interval of stirring music at the fatigue hour (two hours before quitting time). The efficiency, industry, ingenuity of the sawmakers will be graded by men who watch from sus pended overhead walks. A similar building is being planned as a temporary exhibit at the Chicago Fair...
...faculties were given to the new presidents. Professors dismissed got no notice, discovered it by reading newspapers. They noted that they were replaced by Bilbomen, that many an extra job had been created; state legislators were listed as proctors and night watchmen, one was "honorary captain of grass-cutters." Results of the shake-up were soon apparent : U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde objected to a Bilbo appointee at Mississippi Agricultural & Mechanical College, one Lee Denson, threat to withdraw Federal aid ($340,000 Governor Bilbo gave in, re Mr. Denson with L. A. Olsen, agree to Secretary Hyde...
...committee's total passed $4,000,000. This sum was what made it possible for little knots of men to be painting Central Park benches, digging sewers in The Bronx, performing clerical work in city hospitals, pitching manure on Park Avenue's thin central strip of grass. Total thus employed: 17,300. ¶ New Orleans jobless began hawking Louisiana oranges on the streets. Manhattan's unemployed fruit vendors sold tangerines two-for-5?. In Elizabeth...
When the green grass grows all around in U. S. Business, the Saturday Evening Post is the magazine that is head-of-the-house (Curtis Publishing Co.), that reaps most of the money from the long green grass which is Advertising...
There are no trees, no grass in Red Square, Moscow's vast bleak oblong. But at least once a year the grey granite pavement (new-laid by a firm of U. S. contractors) sprouts with the thin steel blades of thousands of bayonets. It did so last week for the 13th anniversary of the Soviet state. Hour after hour the troops filed by, impressive in their grey-brown, ankle-length overcoats while airplanes flew back and forth in formation...