Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bridges: he was fired as a C.I.O. regional director for refusing to go along with Murray's policy of opposing Henry Wallace's third party. Australia-born Harry Bridges' grip on about 75,000 longshoremen was not affected. But he was expecting more bad news -another attempt to deport...
...Washington, Big Jim seemed staggered, though not overcome, by the news. While registering at the Statler Hotel, he gazed at a female employee, said, "My, but you're mighty pretty, miss," but did not attempt to kiss her. He blamed the paternity suit on "politics." Next day, he got into his car and vanished...
Some up-to-date orchardists attempt to solve the problem by pinch-hitting for the bees. They collect pollen of an acceptable type and dust it from airplanes upon the choosy flowers. Orchardman Leo C. Antles of Wenatchee, Wash, prefers the natural way. He has just acquired a patent on a persuasive device. He puts the proper pollen in a little container (U.S. Patent 2,435,951) and attaches it to the beehive. The bees, forced to struggle through the Antles gadget on their way to work, carry to the flowers exactly the kind of pollen that the pistils need...
Died. Ross Lockridge Jr., 33, author of the ambitious, partly successful, best-selling attempt at a Great American Novel, Raintree County; by his own hand (carbon monoxide poisoning); in Bloomington, Ind. Exhausted after seven years' work on the studied, strained, lengthy (1,066 pages) first novel that had finally brought him financial (MGM's $125,000 prize), critical and popular success, Lockridge seemed, at the time of his suicide, to be successfully weathering a nervous breakdown...
...attempt to identify "Gross" went on, the Veterans Office began to consider methods of tightening the present book authorization system against any future illegal inroads...