Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having taken testimony on and deliberated for four months over Ex Parte 103, the petition of all Class 1 railroads for a blanket freight rate increase of 15%, Chairman Ezra Brainerd Jr. of the Interstate Commerce Commission and his ten colleagues last week handed down a dilemma. Even before they were made public the commission's long-awaited findings caused confusion. Someone got a look at the first page of the report, was led to believe the commission had granted, at least in part, what the roads had asked for. A telephone call from Washington sent rail shares bounding...
...Benny Friedman. One of Booth's passes sailed 35 yd., was caught by Herster Barres for a touchdown. Another pass and two long marches made the other three touchdowns that gave Yale the game, 27 to o. Between the halves, Chicago alumni gave Coach Stagg a "C" blanket with 40 stars because he has been Chicago's football coach for 40 years...
...disappear into a hole in the ground. Amazed, Mrs. Hitchcock ordered her whip to tell Mrs. Phipps's superintendent; then set off, with her hounds, after the rabbit. Later, the hole into which the man had disappeared was found to be seven feet deep, furnished with a blanket, pots & pans, straw, a spade. He was persuaded to leave his burrow, where he had lived for almost a month, given a job as a gardener...
...stoutly, even bitterly retorted that rail wages must stay up. It is in these Brotherhoods that U. S. Labor has established its strongest citadel and it is here that the wage-fight will reach its crisis. Although a 10% wage reduction would benefit the carriers as much as a blanket 15% rate increase, there have been no cuts except among salaried workers. Rail officials have been even stronger than was Steelman Farrell last spring in making clear that wage cuts would be the very last resort. Few people think that the Brotherhoods would accept a reduction without strikes and disorder...
...successful at betraying dishonest colleagues. One of his bosses once told him: "Ye're a bit too gude for this worrld, young man; but ye'll have a fine time in the next one. I've nae doot." Even Author Sinclair calls his hero "a wet blanket, a killjoy, a spoilsport, a mollycoddle." "He had to be," explains Author Sinclair. You will probably not be sorry to learn that Kip was finally shot, in line of duty. Maggie May went right on lecturing, with another big talking point...