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Other Weapons. Labor unions have been fined before, notably in the Danbury Hatters case in 1912, when union members were forced to cough up almost $300,000 because they organized a national boycott of D. E. Loewe & Co. hats. The hatters were sued under the Sherman antitrust act. In other ways unions have been forced to pay through the nose for various unwise acts. In 1922, when U.M.W. members killed 19 strikebreakers and wrecked the mine of the Southern Illinois Coal Co. near Herrin, the U.M.W. settled out of court for around $700,000. But never had any union treasury...
...Comte de Paris, pretender to the nonexistent French throne, suffered a Dinging in his ears: all five of his children had whooping cough...
...services at Stillman beyond a certain short stay (which is covered by the $15 semester medical fee) and the expense of all medicinals used by the patient while on out-patient treatment. Unlike many colleges, Harvard has no pharmacy and must rely on commercial apothecaries for calomel and cough medicine...
Deep in the oak and pine timberlands of the Southwest, a headsaw whined through the soft June night. Now & again the hooting of horned owls broke into the steady cough of the gasoline engine, the dull banging of the sawmill carriage, the slap, slap of cut slabs. At dawn, the fireflies and the old crew left the sawmill and the day gang took over...
...national noise of Britain early on a winter morning is a compound of hawk, cough and nose-blow. Wrote 17th-Century Doctor-Author Sir Thomas Browne: "The ancient inhabitants of this island were less troubled with coughs when they went naked and lived in caves...