Word: buster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trust-Buster Thurman Arnold, now a not-too-august U.S. Court of Appeals Associate Justice, last week wiped off the dust that had gathered on his club since he left the Department of Justice, and whammed it down on the collective pate of organized labor. The blow, wrapped in the current issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, was delivered with the same kind of gusto with which he had smashed so savagely at various A.F. of L. unions (building trades, teamsters, musicians) as harmful monopolies. His kick upstairs to the bench brought no heartier sighs of relief from any area than from...
...article ex-Buster Arnold judicially recorded his opinion that labor has become a national headache, that it is perhaps more unpopular in the slit trenches of World War II than in the posh clubs of professional New Deal haters, and that the great body of public approval essential for effective labor support is crumbling all along the line...
Question & Answer: Asking, "What is the reason for all this?" ex-Buster Arnold gives a trust-busting answer: Says...
...head of a state airplane-design bureau, revels in the reputation of a Man-Who-Gets-Things-Done. Stalin often visits Iliushin's offices, gives unexcited pep talks to the staff. When Hitler went on his rampage, Iliushin began to toy with the idea of a flying tank-buster. The seed of the idea was the memory of a frying pan with which many a Russian flyer armor-plated his plane seat in World War I. Out of the frying pan came the fiery Stormovik, which has destroyed so many Nazi tanks that the Germans renamed it der schwarze...
...Dahlgren is now leading both leagues with a batting average of .351 ; Wasdell is hitting around .300. But the clinching stroke that has given the Phillies a winning combination was trading Outfielders Earl Naylor and Danny Litwhiler (Litwhiler was considered their best outfielder) for three Cardinal castoffs: Coaker Triplett, Buster Adams and Dain Clay (later swapped for Cincinnati Shortstop Charlie Brewster...