Word: cards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Klaus netted an average of 150 marks a day, which might buy a pack of Luckies or all the food on his ration card for one month plus his room rent, or one term's worth of legal training at the University. When professional coal thieves moved in from Hamburg (where competition had grown too heavy and the police too strict), he had a little trouble. The newcomers, working in large groups at freight yards, netted several tons a night and sold them through a central organization at fixed prices. They disliked small-time operators like Klaus, who undersold...
...waterfront didn't know quite what to make of all this heavenly refurbishing. Brother True Knowledge refused to accept pay checks made out to Charley Ross. He signed True Knowledge on his union card, income-tax returns and his waterfront pass, but refused to have his name legally changed, on the ground that he had not existed before his rebirth. But since longshoremen were badly needed during the war years. True Knowledge went on working despite the cries of pay clerks, wharf guards and union officials...
...faith-he had just returned from Philadelphia and a look at "the body of Father Divine in person"-True Knowledge appealed to the union rank & file. But only 20 of the 3,100 longshoremen who gathered to hear his case felt that he should be allowed to keep his card. Then the union went further. It set out to cancel his registration as a longshoreman, and thus boot him off the waterfront for good...
Yardling Hugh Smith and crewman Temple Morgan topped the evening's card, and, in an excellent boxing exhibition, Morgan outpointed the Carolinian to annex the 165-pound crown. Wigglesworth's 135-pound Russ Bath and John Dwyer of Thayer raced through three fast rounds, with wily, polished-looking Bath taking the honors...
Opening with the 145 and 175-pound brawls at 4:30 and 5 o'clock respectively, tonight's card continues at 7:45 o'clock with the 125-pound class and runs through the unlimited final at 8:45 o'clock. Three two-minute rounds with a minute rest comprise a match...