Word: boils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Distilling Co. uses it to make Old Colony Gin. The American Distilling Co. employes are organized into a company union and an American Federation of Labor union. Last August an A. F. of L. man, employed as an engineer, was discharged for letting a vat of mash boil over. Fellow unionists protested. The man was rehired to haul ashes. This pretext led to a union v. union strike, which in turn led to a shutdown at the distillery last month. Strikers promptly threw a line of pickets around the plant. The campaign was getting along nicely, in spite...
...semicolon boys are simply a boil on the neck of this Administration, the fellows, you know, who have an office, and some law school has graduated them. They come here to get law jobs in the departments and then they sit down and look for semicolons and hold up the works...
...Armament and pro-British notes is to accuse the Prime Minister furiously of not having sounded them soon or loud enough. In foreign policy they are what British subjects want. Only the black misery of Britain's depressed areas and the savage discontent of her leaderless proletariat can boil up into an election surprise expected last week by no British wiseacre...
...carnauba leaves, sealing up moisture for the arid months. Natives cut the leaves twice a year, dry them in the sun, beat them with clubs until the wax scales off in white, greasy flakes. Most prized is the golden wax taken from the eye of the palm. Some natives boil the wax in water; others toast it in a dry kettle. Finally, they strain it through a cotton cloth, leave it to cool. From 1,500 to 2,500 leaves are required for one arroba...
...only as "friends of the court," this legal background appeared distinctly "suspicious." SECounsel Burns questioned the court's jurisdiction, accused the interested lawyers of "collusion" and "professional impropriety." Those are serious charges in any court and, coming from a man about half his age, they made Mr. Davis boil. Rising with dignity he thundered...