Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost every labor-union member, a picket line is sacrosanct: he would rather see than cross one. Last week the hair on union ears bristled at a heretic's cry. Said an editorial in the Teamster, organ of the powerful Teamsters union...
...York City, Boston and Charleston, thousands of men piled down the gangplanks, lugging barracks bags, German sabers and helmets. They wolf-yowled at the WAC bands, kneeled to make the sign of the cross. One G.I., debarked to a bus, impetuously obeyed his resolve to kiss the first American girl he saw (see cut). The bus de-bussed them before they could even exchange names...
Irna Phillips suddenly realized one day that she had been "subconsciously" educating her listeners all along. Thereafter, she resolved to do it consciously. She began firing questions at agencies all over the country - Child Welfare, the American Legion, the War Department, the Red Cross. Her chief question: "What is your problem and what can we do to help you with it on our programs?" When some responded with case histories, she energetically knitted the true-to-life histories into her already complicated plots. At the moment, the problems of returning veterans dominate her stories...
Vanliners, Airvans. The third-generation growth of Bekins of Los Angeles is typical of the expansion of other Los Angeles businesses. The four companies spend $250,000 yearly on advertising. Householders now use Bekins "vanliners" (large enough to carry 14 rooms of unpacked furniture cross-country) and "portal vans" (detachable from trucks for hoisting aboard ocean liners). When the Government evicted the West Coast Japanese in 1942, Bekins moved more than 60% of them to relocation centers. When the Ninth Service Command moved lock & stock from San Francisco to Salt Lake City, Bekins handled most of the job. Last week...
...facts have been released yet by the Harvard Athletic Association, but the summer schedule will feature two games against Holy Cross. The Crimson, having squelched every civilian team it has played so far, has only Tech and the Purple to contest its title as best civilian team in this area...