Word: drives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After investigating 124 Teamster officers with criminal records, the committee concluded that a criminal background was a "prerequisite" for "advancement within the Teamster firmament." In cities that he invaded in his drive for power, the committee found, Hoffa teamed up with convicts and thugs. Items...
...uses it on pigeons. Whether his secret is more closely related to biochemistry or to mumbo-jumbo, the bird man is in interesting company: the sixth labor of Hercules was to rid the Arcadian city of Stymphalus of its rasping birds. "When Hercules was at a loss how to drive the birds away," writes Apollodorus, "Athena gave him brazen castanets ... By clashing these, he scared the birds. They could not abide the sound...
...movie attendance for the last week of July topped all records, as 82,300,000 people went to the flicks to cool off. A second record from the computers of Hollywood's Pollster Albert Sindlinger: 52,100,000 of the moviegoers were found at drive-ins, largest outdoor attendance ever...
...daily bargaining sessions this week for the first time since Aug. 7. But the A.F.L.-C.I.O. made it clear that it expects the steel walkout to last at least another month; it scheduled a rally to back the steelworkers at its annual convention on Sept. 18, considered a drive to collect i^ a day from each of its 13,300,000 members to help support the 500,000 steel strikers. That-on the basis of a five-day week-would amount to $1.33 per striker per week...
...only because Moscow and its Polish followers want it that way, but because Gomulka has discovered that a little liberty is a dangerous thing: "Gresham's Law is not true of political coinage - for the customs of a free society, wherever the Poles introduced them, began forthwith to drive Communist methods out . . . Where democratization inside the party was permitted, the organizations speedily fell apart...