Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles cops had to sweat to unravel traffic jams when two neighboring drugstores got involved in a furious price war. The store managers kept each other under surveillance with "price spies," set up sidewalk blackboards to notify street crowds of new price cuts, drew mobs of customers by selling pie a la mode for a penny, women's panties for 25?, steak dinners...
...High Gear. The election would also test George Drew's leadership of Canada's chief opposition party, the Progressive Conservatives. When Parliament was dissolved last week, the Progressive Conservatives (Tories) held 69 of the House's 245 seats against 125 for the Liberals. Last January George Drew, 55, had given up the premiership of Ontario to become the Tory leader. In the federal Parliament he had been an outspoken, hard-hitting member. He had made things hum in the House, had thrown his party into high gear...
Even before the session ended, George Drew and his party began to attack the Liberals for their bureaucracy, their failure to do anything about a prospective drop in Canada's foreign trade, and their haste in calling the election. There was a good chance that the country would also hear him repeat a charge that he made last week-that the Liberals were "socialists in low gear...
...payroll had actually earned their money on responsible state jobs. But most of the others, reported Thiem and Harris, had been riding the "gravy train" as "field investigators" and "messenger clerks." One publisher drew $850 as a "public works laborer." But many did render substantial service to Governor Green, said Thiem and Harris -especially at election time. They had faithfully filled their newspapers with editorials and stories ground out by the Green publicity mill...
From the sidelines, Columnist Drew Pearson also threw some grit into Waltham's newly cleaned works. Waltham's new boss, John Hagerty, had left his $10,000-a-year job as Boston manager of the RFC to take the $30,000-a-year Waltham presidency. Since it was RFC which had lent Waltham $6,000,000 to pay debts and resume production, Pearson asked: "Did Waltham offer the lush salary to Hagerty because he deserved it, or as a reward for helping swing the RFC loan?" Retorted RFC: Hagerty did recommend the loan, but RFC headquarters in Washington...