Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home in Springfield, Vt., he is the progressive chairman of the board of the crack Jones & Lamson Machine Co. His labor skirts are clean. The United Electrical local at J. & L. is on record to the effect that he has given it "absolutely fair treatment." The natives know he is a sound, hardheaded Vermonter...
...Lombardo, sad-eyed maestro of unhurried dance music, stepped up his tempo and happily raced away with a water-speed title. At Red Bank, N.J., leisure-hour Boatsman Lombardo won the national motorboat sweepstakes. Next: a crack at the Gold Cup in Detroit this Labor...
...expected that several of the B. & M.'s crack communting trains will make an extra stop one-half mile from the temporary housing project, at Shirley station, where they will pick up extra care loaded with students...
...vote had another aspect. Despite the anti-Truman howls of labor and left-wingers, when the chips were down, the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee went down the line for Truman's man. So did some Negro Republicans,* who wanted to take a crack at Roger Slaughter's votes against the FEPC...
...share his profits with the industry's entrenched distributors. Now fast-failing Universal Pictures, the sixth largest company in town, had dropped 230 acres of lot space and 31 key domestic distribution offices into International's lap. Included in Universal's assets was the first crack at the more than 1,000 theaters owned by British Film Magnate J. Arthur Rank. Mr. Goetz could hardly contain himself...