Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...might be simply that such a track is not absolutely standard, but students of physics found fine food for debate in this proposition: the gravity factor being negligible, it may be that one can run faster up a slight incline since, at each stride, one's feet would strike upsloping ground more quickly than level...
...Flint, Mich., last fortnight State Troopers bashed striking employes of Fisher Body Division of General Motors Corp. with clubs, arrested 23 men and two women. The strikers said they were angry because of wage reductions. The company maintained that no reductions had been made or contemplated. According to the strike committee, men's wages were cut on June 24 from $1 an hour to 40? and 50? an hour, women's wages in the upholstery department from 65? to 75? an hour to $1.12 and $1.20 per day. According to the company, changes in design and construction...
...Mason City, Iowa, Mrs. Eugene Larson, getting fatter, sued for divorce. Said she: "My husband made it a rule to kiss me every time I lost a pound and strike me whenever I gained a pound...
...insignificant that the first plane to cross the Atlantic westward on a nonstop flight from one airport to another, found its way through Newfoundland fogs and magnetic disturbances almost entirely by radio. The Bremen, only plane preceding the Southern Cross, had no radio and was lucky to strike land where it did at Greenley Island...
...American Tobacco's 1930 success. He referred proudly to the editorial quality of his advertising, judged that it was effectively competing, in reader interest, with the non-advertising columns of the publications in which it appeared. Not surprising was his accent on newspaper advertising, since the Lucky Strike campaign has been essentially a newspaper effort, supplemented by magazine pages but relying upon its daily appearance for its greatest effect. Mr. Hill added that his 1930 advertising appropriation had been increased over 1929 by $2,300,000; an increase which would give to Lord & Thomas and Logan (American Tobacco...