Word: cincinnatis
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...compensate for wage increases, Steel wanted sizable price increases. The Administration was openly boasting that Steel would get no such thing. So Steel's refusal to bargain with Phil Murray was its only lever in its bargaining with the hostile and partial Government. Said Ben Fairless in Cincinnati last November: "Whether our workers are to get a raise, and how much it will be if they do, is a matter which probably cannot be determined by collective bargaining, and will apparently have to be decided finally in Washington...
Even though he made his millions from refrigerators, radios, scalp exercisers, bed coolers and sundry other gadgets, Powel Crosley Jr.'s first love was always the automobile. Seven years ago, the 6 ft. 4 in. Cincinnati millionaire decided to satisfy his passion. For $19 million he sold all his other interests to Aviation Corp. (now Avco), concentrated on making midget Crosley autos. His goal was to produce 150,000 cars a year, eventually bring the price down to $500. But Crosley fell far short of the mark...
Died. Fred Tenney, 80, first baseman for the Boston Braves and New York Giants and manager (1905-07 and 1911) of the Braves, who originated the "3-6-3" double play (first base to shortstop to first) in a game against the Cincinnati club in 1897; in Boston. One of the great fielding first basemen of his day, Tenney led the National League in assists for eight years, an alltime record...
...most of Hollywood's producers watched with envious amazement, crowds in Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Indianapolis flocked to see Kong brought back alive from a Pacific island to Manhattan, where he climbs the Empire State Building clutching the beauteous and screaming Fay Wray (now fortyish and retired). There, raging defiantly at his puny pursuers, the monster finally gets shot down by a squadron of ancient biplanes...
...until he pants, but he rarely hears much more than a jumble of overtones, mixed with the clatter of the levers. Moreover, there are only 79 carillons in North America (eight of them in Canada), so performers rarely have a chance to compare notes. In Mariemont, a suburb of Cincinnati, guildmen wasted only an hour on formalities, got down to business in a hurry; for the best part of three days they took turns at keyboards in the vicinity while the rest lounged listening outside...