Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sent by the Germans to work in a Viennese shirt factory, where she precariously waited out the war. In July 1947, she was brought to the U.S. by the United Service for New Americans. She found work in a bank, lived in a lonely furnished room in Brooklyn, knocked on many doors in search of Anna Sobel...
...offices on Lower Broadway, the Remlers and Ava Miller met at last. After the first flush of excitement, they sat down to exchange notes on the search. Then they found that until a month ago, Ava had lived less than 300 feet away from Anna Sobel Remler's Brooklyn home...
...hung on. He signed up with the union, managed to get his beer through a couple of distributors and a Brooklyn brewery, announced that he was going to have the windows washed, and keep at it. Said he solemnly: "The people want it." By this week Sam's idea had spread to other saloons in Washington, D.C. and New Jersey, and Sam was getting more trade in a day than he had drawn before in a week. The nickel beer was here to stay, Sam announced...
...dogfight between players and owners which could hurt the sport immeasurably. If players went to the highest bidders, the rich owners like Tom Yawkey would soon corral all the talent. In post-war major league baseball, there is comparatively little injustice in salaries; everywhere except in St. Louis and Brooklyn, public acclaim keeps the paychecks high. The clause looks like slavery; in the minor leagues, it often is. But the experience of the past thirty years has shown the reserve clause to be the chief stabilizer in the big league player market. Although exceptions are needed in cases like that...
...Joseph P. Flemming, Jr., of Phillips Academy, Andover; Paul C. Martin, of Stuyvesant High School, New York, Gilbert R, Panzer, of Newtown High School, Elmhurst, New York; Earl C. Ravenal, of Hope High School, Providence; Neil J. Smelser, of Phoenix Union High School, Phoenix, Arizona; David K. Specter, of Brooklyn Technical High School; Isaac Thomas, Jr., of the Hill School, Pottstown, Pa.; and David B. Tyack, of Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter...