Word: alling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Airman Sherman called in Crommelin and announced his verdict. Crommelin was to get a stiff letter of reprimand, and would be transferred away forthwith from the pitfalls of Washington to San Francisco to serve as aviation officer on the staff of Vice Admiral George D. Murray, Commander of the Western...
Despite all the suffering, John Lewis was still king of the coal miners. "All we got, we owe to him," said a miner with finality. "Twenty years ago we worked 20 hours for $2; now we get $15 for eight, that's what." But the king, it was plain...
White Flag. But never in his 29 years of imperious reign had John L. Lewis fumbled so badly, and the miners knew it. His three-day work week and the strike had won them nothing-not even a crisis in the nation's coal supply. He had methodically bullied...
Every now & then the logic of it all was overpowering. Suppose he did have to settle for a small part in a western movie at first? Wouldn't they spot Artie Biggs for a surefire Roy Rogers when they saw his lightning draw and heard him sing the way...
Three times-by foot, subway and train -Artie Biggs, a freckle-faced eleven-year-old, had started out for Hollywood, only to be turned back. Once he got as far as Brewster, N.Y., 52 miles from home in the wrong direction, before the cops caught him. One morning last week...