Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plants where both claim bargaining rights, big General Motors agreed to dicker with both when & if they can agree on representation by a common shop committee. Sadly aware that intra-union feuding has frittered away its union's active membership, the C. I. O. board planned a reorganization drive to regain lost ground, push Homer Martin clear out of the industry...
...weather its incendiary bullets are handy. They drive the enemy out of his flaming cover into the open where he can be mowed down by gunners firing at the rate of 600 lead-cored slugs a minute. Within 600 yards the shocking power of its standard bullets is terrific-one burst can tear away a man's face, one slug in shoulder or ankle can knock him sprawling...
After twelve years Charles Lindbergh's social status will probably soon be decided. Either the pursuit of the public will drive him to lead an almost monastic life. abandoning the world which other men enjoy, or perhaps now at last hero worship will die a natural death. Some day soon he and his wife may try going to dinner and the theatre in Manhattan. If they are not hounded too much they may do it again and again. They may send their sons to U. S. schools like other boys. If that time comes, twelve long dark years...
Last week, equipped with a khaki flying suit, a pistol, seven rounds of ammunition, two chocolate bars, sandwiches and 55?, he marched blithely into one Edward Walz's drive-yourself aerodrome at Camden, N. J., rented a two-seated, high-wing Luscombe monoplane ($9 for one hour). In its gas tanks were eight gallons, barely enough for a 175-mile...
...Thomas Edmund Dewey, 90%; voice quality very good, delivery & mannerisms good, poise very good. "Resonant, effective, his short staccato sentences ending with a punch you know is in the man himself . . . his appeal is not the appeal of persuasion, but of hard, purposeful drive...