Word: basement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adams, after two and a half years of agitation has finally got the wherewithal to have washing machines in its basement. The Council last night loaned the Adams House Committee $600 to procure the machines for next fall
...where strikers had prayed daily that they would be granted the union security and a 15?-an-hour wage boost that they had demanded. (Johns-Manville argued that the union-security demand was an attempt to interfere in "managerial policy.") At a union meeting in the church basement, after Mass, the strikers were asked if they wanted to continue the blockade. There was a unanimous "Oui." Then the men piled into waiting trucks, went back to the barricades to await the next assault...
Night Patrol. Squad cars patrolling the quieted town brought back word that some of the strikers were hiding out in the basement of the church of Saint-Aimé. Inspector-General Norbert L'Abbé, commanding the police, issued orders to round them up. A squad of 100 police entered the church, in the basement found seven young strikers who started defending themselves with homemade clubs. They were overpowered and led, bleeding and beaten, to the Black Maria. All night long, more & more strikers, picked up in their homes and on the streets, were loaded into the patrol wagon...
...cares for its customers' wants from womb to tomb. It provides their layettes, is their official outfitter for Eton, Harrow and a score of other schools. It delivers their food and wines, handles their banking and insurance, paints their portraits (for ?35), parks and manicures their poodles in basement kennels, and takes care of their funerals-all on credit...
...basement bar of the Hotel Scribe, Parisian headquarters for the Allied press corps during World War II, TIME & LIFE Correspondent Noel F. Busch met another TIME correspondent. A newcomer, hired overseas, he had never even seen his home office and he was curious about it. How, he asked Busch over a drink, had TIME ever begun, anyway...