Word: bout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week John L. took on the Champ in a minor, preliminary bout: U.M.W. strikers (members of his catch-all District 50) went back to work at Celanese Corp.'s big plant in Newark. Carefully they proclaimed that they had won a "Victory" because the President himself had stepped into the fracas, ordered their return. But last week, as WLB took over his big show, John L. was not at the coal hearings: he was ensconced in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel, holding a watch on the White House and ticking off the hours until his May i deadline...
...crisis in coal was far more serious than a bout between two well-known champions. If John L. Lewis' 450,000 men strike, and are allowed to stay out. they will in due course bring the bulk of the U.S. war machine to a grinding stop by cutting off two-thirds" of the nation's electric power, stopping most of its railroads and steel mills. And if they win, they will spearhead the forces that may smash the President's Maginot Line against inflation...
...Preliminary Bout. The answering roar of "Bull Bill" could be heard by 130,000,000 rubber-conscious Americans, as he in tended it should. In a warm-up for Patter son, Jeffers ripped a horn into OWI's Elmer Davis for gloomily predicting that the nation was too optimistic about rub ber. Jeffers harshly said that Davis didn't know what he was talking about, stuck to his previous announcement: civilians would be purchasing synthetic tires early next year. Then he rumbled about Washingtonians "sitting around desks and is suing orders and grousing about someone else taking something...
...Coming back after the war?" The barber hesitated. It sounded the same as when he said, "How 'bout a hot oil shampoo?" Same fake smile...
...weights will range from 127 lbs. to 175 lbs. and the undergrad squad will use the House boxing tournament champions except in the 155 and 165 lb. classes, in which the champs will be unavailable. Lou Hill, heavyweight champ, will box in the 175 lb bout...