Word: batting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bat'a Board members said, "Some time ago our First Working Partner remarked to me, 'If I should die I expect you to stand by the works for one year. Then, if you are unable to continue without me, you are free to do what you like...
...Bat'a funeral last week flew Boston Merchant Edward A. Filene, no vender of Bat'a shoes. Mr. Filene was at Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Czechoslovakia when he heard the news...
Punctually at noon all Bat'a factory sirens began howling an eerie lament. Work ceased for the day. Again at 3 p. m. the sirens howled. In the factory yard a joint funeral service began for Thomas Bat'a and Pilot Heinrich Brouceck. Sixty thousand mourners, many of them peasants with black kerchiefs, marched past the catafalque hour after hour. In a husky voice that several times broke, Jan Bat'a read aloud Thomas Bat'a's will. It ignores his son Tommy as such, leaves all to the House of Bat...
Raising his hand high at last Jan Bat'a took a solemn vow "in the presence of our dead chief to uphold his ideals: service to customers through cheap shoe production and service to fellow workers through high wages...
Finally the two bodies were buried near each other in a woodland cemetery. Roaring Bat'a planes dived and zoomed, strewed the graves with Zlin's summer flowers...