Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Misapprehension, borne of a lack of familiarity with recent developments in the cycling industry, is evidently responsible for your story headed "Ole Swimmin' Hole," in the Sept. 7 issue of TIME...
...danger of being cut, were to walk out, many of them would find their jobs readily filled by unemployed under obligation to no union. A year ago, when the steel industry was operating at 60% of capacity instead of 29%,, there might have been trouble, regardless of lack of unions, had wages gone down. The same was true of the other industries which faced cuts last week, and which have been cut before. Copper miners have unions but they are not strong and they realize the copper companies could afford to shut down in the event of a strike...
...Breadwinner relates the story of two English families, next door neighbors: the Battles and the Grangers. The two wives have nothing to worry their silly heads about. The four children talk a good deal about how "shy-making" are their parents' stodginess and lack of imagination. Charles Battle (A. E. Matthews) is a stockbroker in The City. Alfred Granger, a barrister, is a hearty, roast-beef-of-Old-England sort of fellow...
...20th Century era of titanic corporations Adams calls "The Age of the Dinosaurs." Says he: "It is probable that the dinosaurs passed because of lack of brain power. The difficulty of supplying our modern economic monsters with sufficient power of intellectual direction at the top has already become evident." He thinks Roosevelt "undeniably the greatest Republican President since Lincoln." For Wilson he reserves higher praise: "Here once more was the authentic voice of the great American democracy; here once more was the prophet speaking of the American dream, of that hope of a better and richer life...
...Lack of clearly defined police jurisdiction caused confusion from the start. District Attorney Elvin N. Edwards of Nassau County announced he believed Mrs. Collings' story; District Attorney Alexander G. Blue of Suffolk County said he did not. Mrs. Collings was questioned and requestioned. Theories of piracy, kidnapping, murder were advanced. On the Penguin were found bloodstains, a broken milk bottle, a broken oar, a revolver and knife which Mr. Collings had not attempted to use. In the boat's tender was an air-cushion which Mrs. Collings said she tried to throw to her husband. The anchor...