Word: catches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reporter Smith pocketed the guest list, copied from place cards, Mobster Giancana grumbled volubly on. He had a sneer for congressional investigating committees ("They couldn't catch me for a year; I like to hide from them"), a boost for syndicated crime ("What's wrong with the syndicate? Two or three of us get together on some deal and everybody says it's a bad thing. But those businessmen do it all the time and nobody squawks"), the back of his hand for the draft board that rated him a constitutional psychopath in 1943: "Who wouldn...
Management offered no concessions, not even a pledge that if the union held the line on wages the companies would hold the line on steel prices. The letter set forth that the Steelworkers have no ground for higher wages, no need to "catch up," because their wages have risen more than those of nearly all other industrial groups in recent years. Steel wages are now 38% above the average for all manufacturing, compared to 20% above in 1953; they average $3.03 an hour v. $2.19 for manufacturing workers generally. Well aware that steel profits will be fat, the steelmakers tried...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.--America's second Discoverer satellite roared southward into polar orbit yesterday, setting the stage for a sigantic game of aerial catch in which planes may try to snatch its parachuting nose cone from...
...from scratch. Twice a year he looks over the registration line of incoming students, studying them like a chorus line director for height, posture, shoulder and leg muscles. "Usually they're flattered when I single them out, but some of the skeptics wonder what's the catch. Most of them never held an oar in their lives." He puts the selected candidates to work, builds their bodies, makes extensive use of movies in analyzing their form. Though crew is a spring sport, Ebright works his men on the barge and rowing machines each fall, has them ready...
...trouble. For years U.S. fleets fished with such predatory methods that the Government now permits no salmon fishing outside the three-mile limit, this year outlawed the use of fish traps at the mouth of spawning rivers. But the U.S. has no control over other nations, whose fleets catch the salmon before they ever get to Alaska waters...