Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate committee reacted by at last voting 10 to 1 to confirm Boyd (Millikin dissenting). But Lewis had more on his mind than Boyd. A two weeks' work stoppage would drastically reduce the present big 70 million-ton, soft-coal stockpile-a 45 days' supply. With a lot less coal on hand, operators would be more amenable when Lewis presented them with his new contract demands. His present contract expires June...
...down in his City Hall office; $10,000 worth of telephone and tapping equipment had been found in the detective's Yonkers home. A plot was afoot, said O'Dwyer, to listen in on the telephones of several score of city officials (including his) and some big wheels in the Midwest. A prominent someone had given Ryan...
...Carrying his "snaps" (miner's lunch), he rode to the pithead with his mates in the special streetcars reserved for the miners -so that they would not dirty other passengers. He found that miners lived in a segregated world of their own. He began to carry a big chip on his shoulder. Once a supervisor asked him why he did not take off his jacket while he worked. "There's nothing in the Mine Act that says I have to," snapped Bevan...
...wife of an admiral who is also cousin to the King, handsome Lady Mountbatten cuts a dashing figure and runs a big house. She has never lacked cash; as granddaughter of Banker Sir Ernest Cassel, she is the life beneficiary of a ?1,406,250 (about $5,600,000) trust fund. Last week her solicitors let it be known that Lady Mountbatten was broke and would shortly ask the House of Lords to pass a bill permitting her to break Sir Ernest's trust...
...Denmark outdid itself to celebrate King Frederik IX's soth birthday. Among his gifts: a racing motorboat, two carpets, a big electric stove with kitchen utensils, a tractor for plowing fire belts in the royal forest and, from a nine-year-old wellwisher, a letter containing some cigarettes...