Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...route to the Pacific Coast by plane, the merchandising manager of Abraham & Straus, Brooklyn department store, read a 15-line item in the Business & Finance section of TIME'S February 14 issue (see cut) that made him itch to get to a telephone. The story was a brief account (sent in by a TIME correspondent) of the fact that a Birmingham, Ala. housewife had apparently invented a sewing machine needle that would unrip a seam in the same time that it took to sew it. If true, the Abraham & Straus-man said later, "this needle was what an eraser...
...scheduled appearance of another one of the 11 Communist leaders produced another squall at Brooklyn College, which has not yet ended...
Last March, the Karl Marx Society at Brooklyn asked permission to held a campus meeting featuring Harry Winston. The Faculty-Student Committee on Student Activities vetoed this, because Winston currently is on trial in New York. The Marxist group was also warned that it could not sponsor the meeting off the campus, either...
...Brooklyn's public relations director told the CRIMSON. "Teachers Union charges are without foundation." Other charges made by the rally supporters were answered one day before the strike in a formal statement by President Gideonse read to all classes...
...Brooklyn (Banta) 8, Pittsburgh...