Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Layoffs & Lectures. From the red brick railroad station to Oppenheims, Jackson's big modernistic department store, Main Street was feeling a pinch. The stores were bustling with people, but less than one out of ten customers walked out with a package. Last week 60 clerks who had been laid off reported for unemployment compensation. At the weekly meeting, the manager of the Sears, Roebuck store lectured his employees: "This week we dropped another $11,000 from our previous week ... I must ask you to watch every penny, be it in the cash register or in the electric bill...
...Force watched each flight proudly-both planes had been ordered east to take part in a big, private air show for Congress this week, calculated to soften the hearts of members who are considering the Air Force Budget...
...than that: Bill Boyle would parcel out, or pass on, the jobs in the lush fields above civil service and below Cabinet rank (among them: judgeships, U.S. district attorneys, key postmasterships). Eventually he would probably take title officially from McGrath. His first goal: to buck for a big registration in 1950, to avoid the off-year election slump that usually hits the party in power. Says Boyle: "A big registration never worries me. I know there are more Democrats than there are Republicans...
...equipment workers began streaming out of International Harvester's big plant, some 70 U.A.W. members were waiting at the gates with organizing leaflets. Local F.E.W. bosses pulled their workers back inside; when they came out again, they came out swinging-crowbars, steel hinges, and slabs of scrap iron...
Coached by Harry Dallmar, a former All-American who now plays with the Philadelphia Warriors, Penn is big and fast. The Quakers are led by Sam Lyon, a six-foot four-inch center and perhaps the best in the League. His left-hand hook shot has averaged 16 points a game. Besides height, the team has an excellent set shot artist in Phil Harman...