Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After six weeks of tedious negotiations and a scattering of strikes (19,000 miners out in 235 mines), the soft-coal miners and operators signed a new contract. On its face it was a give & take proposition. Actually it was a fair victory for the miners and their shaggy, barrel-shaped boss, John L. Lewis, who had asked for a lot and wound up by getting quite a little...
...promotion list, long awaited by the Navy (TIME, Jan. 22, et seg.), surprised no one. Thirty-five line officers' names were on it. Three wingless vice admirals got a fourth star: grizzled 60-year-old Richard S. Edwards, King's deputy COMINCH; shy, barrel-chested Henry K. Hewitt, 58, "Nimitz of the Mediterranean"; suave, salty Thomas C. Kinkaid, 57, boss of the Seventh Fleet and member of MacArthur's famous "K-team" (Kinkaid, Krueger and Kenney). Five rear admirals got three stars-but none of the eight was a naval aviator, and none was under 53. Only...
...U.S.S.R.'s need for credits does not put her over a barrel. If she does not get credits she can substitute another decade of grinding want for the Russian masses, can again concentrate every ounce of national energy on building industrial plants, forego even a slight advance in living standards. If a prewar Stalin could hold Russia's nose to the grindstone, a stronger, victorious Stalin probably could, if necessary...
...tempered, silver-haired Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson, Britain's handsomest Parliamentary capriphile, has been quiet since the failure of his "the-goat-is-the-poor-man's-cow" campaign last year. But last week the barrel-chested Tory M.P. was knee deep in a new crusade: overalls for ecdysiasts...
...stood beside his cot. One minute his heavy rasping breath could be heard throughout the tent. The next he was quiet and the sheet was pulled over his head. I saw a big marine who might have been a wrestler, judging by his huge neck and bulging biceps. His barrel chest heaved mightily as he fought to breathe and live. Said Pharmacist's Mate Billy O'Neal: "One of his main arteries was hit. The internal hemorrhage is so great, he seems to be drowning in his own fluids." Half an hour later the big fellow was dead...