Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Night Before Christmas (by Sidney Joseph & Laura West Perelman, produced by Courtney Burr) is not a bedtime story. It is a mottled Sing Sing folk tale of a silver-haired confidence man past his prime and a slop-house plug ugly who pair up to crack a bank vault for Christmas. They buy a tired Manhattan luggage shop next door to the bank and start tunneling. Obstructed by unwanted customers, garrulous neighbors, former penmates, they dynamite, not the vault, but a nearby cafeteria, while Santa Claus stuffs their stocking with...
...newspapers tell us that because a few of the boys working for some of the steel companies want a 5? or 10? raise, and/or A. F. of L. doesn't like C. I. O., they declare a strike, tie up production for national defense and crack a lot of heads to prove that they mean to get what they're after ... or else...
...Lynx-lithe Dave Freeman of Pasadena, 20: the U.S. badminton championship, for the third year in a row; lambasting Carl Loveday of Montclair, N.J. in the final, 15-6, 15-8; in Cleveland's Public Hall. Champion Freeman is also a crack tennis player: national junior champion in 1938, fourth ranking doubles player of the U.S. (with Ted Schroeder...
Thus was the Section II problem's "back broken." A louder crack accompanied the death of another institution: the freedom of the utilities to place their financing where they see fit. In February 1940 Morgan, Stanley sold $25,000,000 of Dayton Power Co. bonds. The bankers consented to having their $100,562 fee "impounded" while SEC decided whether they were an "affiliate" of Dayton Power, or if there had been an absence of arm's length bargaining (required by the Act) in preparing the deal. Fortnight ago SEC dropped a bombshell on the corner of Broad...
...Flick after flick comes grinding out of movieland to take a crack at Old Eli," moaned the Yale Daily News in a special article last week tracing the Bulldog's Hollywood hard luck story...