Word: chests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...auto workers, in convention in Milwaukee, voted a $10 million war chest to win from Ford some of the creature comforts of the "welfare state" (see below). Old John Lewis, whose miners have all kinds of welfare already, had put his men on a three-day week to spread the work around...
...each reading. When the pitch was right, Reuther asked them to give his executive board authority to levy a special $1-a-week-for-twelve-weeks strike assessment on all employed U.A.W. members. From their seats behind long, banquet-like tables, the delegates shouted approval. It meant a war chest of some $10 million...
Last week, Dr. Richard Sweet opened 61-month-old Sandy's chest, tied off the front half of the aortic ring and cut it out. The arterial blood will pass through the rear half, which is expected to grow. On the danger list for 48 hours, Sandy was in an oxygen tent, breathing more soundly and soundlessly than ever before in her short life...
...moth intently as it circled the light. Then the mask came down over his face, guards deftly snapped the electrodes on his arms and legs, and the dynamo started up with a low whine. At 11:11 p.m. the prison physician put his stethoscope to Sheridan's chest. "This man is dead," he said in a flat voice...
...their heyday beards were valued for keeping women in their place, preventing chest colds and "clergyman's throat' for "[sucking] out the abundant and gross humors of the cheeks," for concealing weak chins, and for training, "like well-bred wall plants." Their combings made an excellent stuffing for cushions. When not being wagged, beards could be carried in a velvet bag (as was one 16th Century dandy's), or their ends were wrapped around a smart walking cane or twined in & out of the waist belt. At night, of course, the beard could serve as an extra...