Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tons of oil) were taken, the greatest number in history. Writing in Science recently, Dr. Murphy observed that during the 1938-39 season a record kill may again have been perpetrated, but there were so many ships in the field, especially the Antarctic, that preliminary reports indicate a very poor season in yield per ship...
Hygrade was started by husky, sporting Yankee Frank Poor, later joined by his brothers Ed and Walter. Once high in the field of 10-watt bulbs for electric displays, they found after World War I that General Electric's patents were law-proof, settled down to make bulbs under G. E. license, on a production quota of 2% of G. E.'s own. Pushing like a radish sprout under a rock, the Poor Brothers merged with other small licensees, ran their quota up to 10%, became No. 3 lamp maker (after G. E. & Westinghouse...
...Government's work in timber salvage, learned that New England produces less than a fourth as much high-grade timber as it could and should. In Concord, N. H., he watched the State Legislature in session ("the people themselves seemed to have come to Concord, and they looked poor as the land from which many of them came...
...death of New England's great mills, the difficult struggle to get small industries into the empty buildings. Against the small Jewish manufacturers, whom he guessed to be more like the Yankees of old than the Yankee descendants are, he saw race prejudice growing among the misled unemployed poor. "The poor who hate seem to me as sad as the pitiful who are hated. It is the seashore and schoolhouse anti-Semites who make me sick...
Thirty years before, the novelist had visited Rome as a poor but haughty young man, had met a moist old character who took him to see an obscure but radiantly beautiful fountain. Ostensible theme of his book is his skeptical wish to see that fountain again. Actually it is a profounder search for a profounder fountain...