Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yesterday's race the eights went over the old course and continued to row a short distance past the West Boston bridge at the end of the stretch with a half length of open water showing between the shells. With rough conditions prevailing the beat was forced down in the last half mile of rowing and the boats finished the trial, with several inches of water sloshing beneath the slides...
...acknowledgement made to the Princeton seconds is simple and direct. A stretch of the imagination, and monuments suring up to unsuccessful second assistant managers and disappointed candidates for the Glee Club. That sort of "I'll be a sister to you" encouragement helps a lot when the world just will not seem to go 'round, and a touch of sympathy after a while gets to feel like the thump of congratulation. In the end, it may be well to leave the public recognition of good losers to those who first discovered it, and to apply the funds saved in this...
South Carolina. Operatives first walked out of the Brandon Mills at Greenville. Others at Spartanburg, Union and Anderson followed. Complaint was against the "stretch-out" system whereby workers were given increased work without proportionately more pay. A committee of the South Carolina Legislature, headed by Representative Dowell E. Patterson, who is also president of the State Federation of Labor, investigated these strikes and reported : "The whole trouble has been brought about by putting more work on the employes than they can do. . . . In the 'stretch-out' system it is the employe who does the stretching out. . . . The strike...
...cord tires. Six months ago the National Textile Workers Union began organizing in this and neighboring mills. Last week they came into the open, called a strike answered by 1,000 Loray workers. They demanded: a $20 minimum weekly wage, a 40-hour (five-day) week, abolition of the "stretch-out" system, a 50% cut in company rents and light rates, recognition of the union. The mill operators refused to recognize the union, damned it as "Communistic." One organizer was George Pershing, representative of the Communist Daily Worker, publicly introduced as General John Joseph Pershing's cousin. With...
...spots were found: 1) an 18-mile stretch of the Rapidan River in Shenandoah National Park, 100 miles west by south of Washington, upon which a presidential fishing lease was arranged; 2) a tract of 1,500 acres known as Catoctin Manor, 50 miles north of Washington, watered by Hunting Creek. This tract (but not the Manor House) was purchased in the name of Lawrence Richey. A rustic cabin will be built to receive President Hoover and his intimates...