Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From then on, the leftists knew that they had no chance to sway the convention. They had come primed to fight for the re-election of bumbling R. J. Thomas as a C.I.O. vice president, and thus build up his efforts to take the presidency of the U.A.W. away from redheaded Walter Reuther. But the leftists never got their fists up. Phil Murray, taking note of rumors that Thomas was plotting with John L. Lewis to take the autoworkers out of the C.I.O., called Thomas in and bluntly told them he was through as a C.I.O. top officer. When...
First warning of the onslaught came on Thursday, October 21, when a solitary brave wandered into the Stoughton Hall quarters of one David B. Shaw and demanded lodging for the night. Ughing something about the provisions of a gift of bricks used to build the original Stoughton Hall in 1695, he claimed that the building's charter entitled all Indians to free lodging in the Yard dormitory...
Blame for Railroads? The car builders replied that the steel did not come in an even flow, that this had caused unbalance in the supply of parts, etc. But the railroad companies' own car-building shops, supposedly working under the same conditions, had slightly exceeded their quotas. Scheduled to build 15% of the new cars, they had actually built 27% of all cars in August...
...workers were laid off. With General Motors limping along at only 65% of capacity, Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. said that "it looks as if it would be two years at least" before there was enough steel. Ford Motor Co. did more than grumble; it earmarked $18 million to build a blast furnace and buy a secondhand rolling mill to turn out steel itself...
...working out every twist of plot before shooting starts. (Many a director still makes up the plot as he goes along.) Schary also cuts corners on scenery by writing in night scenes, because "you can't see as far at night and you don't have to build as much." And he does not like snow. "Snow runs into big money," says he. "You won't find snow in my pictures unless there's a good reason for it." Schary believes that any good plot can be told in a telegram, likes unusual ones. Says...