Word: boatload
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers locked out of Henry Clay Frick's Homestead mill near Pittsburgh captured a boatload of Pinkerton guards, won a historic industrial battle but subsequently lost their first attempt to force labor unions on the highly individualistic steel industry. In 1919 a Chicago railway organizer named William Zebulon Foster tried his hand at organizing Steel. This attempt degenerated because American Federation of Labor unions were more anxious to protect their individual interests than to bring steelworkers into the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers. As in 1919, the great 1936 fight to unionize 500,000 steelworkers will...
...third. The yacht flotilla at the finish shrieked wildly as the first shell slid across the line. It was Washington's- whose smart Coxswain Bob Moch had timed a long sprint perfectly through the last mile-with California a length and a half behind, Navy third, and a boatload of Columbia sophomores fourth...
...weighing less than 130 pounds who have a yen to shoot orders at a boatload of sweating oarsmen are invited by Coach Whiteside to attend the first meeting of his school for coxswains tonight in the Upper room of the Union at 7 o'clock. Whiteside says that ambitious lightweights will be taught enough about commands, balance, bladework, and tiller-handling to enable them to take out a shell without previous experience...
...land at St. Catherine's, Miss. Meantime, Blennerhassett Island had been rented to a friend, who subsequently was dispossessed. Creditors took over the estate, leased it to a farmer who stowed part of his hemp crop in one of the wings of the house. One frosty evening a boatload of slaves, rowing home to the island, tipped over, received an icy drenching. To warm themselves, they broke into...
...Jerusalem. Richard Coeur de Lion (Henry Wilcoxon) was the last to enlist and did so for no better reason than to escape a marriage with King Philip of France's sister Alice (Katherine DeMille). This turns out to be most advantageous. Before embarking at Marseille, Richard gets a boatload of cattle and feed for his army by marrying the daughter of the King of Navarre. She is a thoroughly worthwhile blonde named Berengaria (Loretta Young), and Richard sails off to the Wars in much better style than he had any reason to expect...