Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week Leader Lewis let General Motors feel his whip when 2,450 employes of its Fisher body and Chevrolet assembly plants "sat down" at their jobs in protest against discharge of a U. A. W. employe. In Detroit. 1.500 employes of National Automotive Fibres, Inc. (floor mats, cushions, door panels for Chrysler and others) struck against discharge of ten U. A. W. workers, went back next day with the unionists reinstated, a 5?per-hour pay raise won. In Eau Claire, Wis. 2,000 jobs came to a halt when Gillette Rubber Co. (tires & tubes) was shut down...
...Land O'Lakes, Wis. one night last week, Harlen Pitts, the 20-year-old attendant, turned to serve two men who had ordered gasoline. Something hard crashed against the back of his skull. Next thing he knew he was kneeling at a bench in the garage next door. Dizzily he tried to get up, discovered he could not. Something was holding his hands. He lost consciousness again...
...chill afternoon of Feb. 4 last, Saint Gustloff was sitting in his home in Switzerland where for many years he had been spreading the Germanic gospel as a Nazi missionary. Suddenly the door opened and in walked a 26-year-old Yugoslav youth, David Frankfurter, whose blue eyes and rosy cheeks gave him the appearance of a respectable Aryan. As he entered the room he heard Saint Gustloff spitting into the telephone: "Ah, these pigs of Jews and Communists, we will see an end of them!" This was too much for David Frankfurter, who calmly plucked a revolver from...
...Over the door of the old building were two bronze eagles to symbolize the paper's name, its wide flight for news. Under the Eagle's eagles passed many a capable newsman, such famed Brooklyn editors as Dr. St. Clair McKelway and Dr. Arthur Millidge Howe, who wrote sober, sensible Eagle editorials for 38 years...
...Next door to one of the six Briggs plants in Detroit is the main works of Motor Products Corp., makers of dashboards, manifolds, mufflers, many another auto part. There is no duplication of manufacture between the companies. Briggs even buys top parts from Motor Products. Last week it was announced that a merger was in the making. Subject to directors' and stockholders' approval on both sides, three shares of Motor Products stock will be exchanged for two shares of Briggs. Combined assets figured on the basis of 1935 year-end statements will...