Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goodbye to Bets. Beaming Jimmy Hoffa announced right there in the courtroom that he was going to call a teamster meeting in Chicago this week to decide his "future activities in the union." It seemed that, with discredited Dave Beck scheduled to bow out in September, Jimmy Hoffa was about ready to run openly for Beck's $50,000-a-year job as president of the nation's biggest labor union (1,400,000 members...
...awaiting freedom and the end of light sentences too short to warrant sending them to departmental prisons; a grim handful await death in the prison courtyard. At 7:30 one morning last week, all of them were awaiting the same thing-coffee. The "juice," as the prisoners call it, is passed out to them each morning just a half hour after the day shift comes on to relieve the nighttime guards. That morning there were no guards to pass it out. In a fine display of solidarity, backed by the nation's three main labor federations, the guards...
Shortly after noon, tear gas and fire hoses restored order. Since most of the prison records had been destroyed, a roll call was impossible, but as nearly as anyone could tell, none of the prisoners had escaped, even though the doors to about 100 Sante cells had disappeared in smoke...
...great progress at present. Frankly speaking, we sometimes experience childish joy in it. Some workers in our trade organization sounded an alarm, saying there are no freezing plants to store our pork. I told them that we would easily solve this situation, which they chose to call a disaster. There is one easy way out-reduce prices, and then everyone will find a storage place in their own stomachs. We will be able to put hundreds and thousands of tons into that storage space! It is unlimited...
...French African francs (about 80?) for each gram of the metal as it came from the pan. The rush to cash in nearly demolished the office. Within half an hour, the agency's 5,500,000 francs were gone, and it had to send a hurry call to Paris for more. By last week, more than 125,000 grams of gold had been sent to France. During one month alone, the government had paid out more than 22 million French African francs to Kaka and Baya tribesmen bringing in gold dust in penicillin bottles...