Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year 63 employes of Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. seized that concern's plants at North Chicago, Ill. Against police assaults and court commands to vacate, they held fast until Fansteel's lawyer devised a portable _ wooden tower, enabled officers to douse the sit-downers with nauseating gas. Last September, the National Labor Relations Board declined to concede that subsequent conviction of 37 strikers and two C. I. O. leaders on contempt of court charges in any way affected workers' rights under the Wagner Act. By directing Fansteel to re-employ the strikers, recognize their union, the board...
...eighth catcher Bob Fulton walked, and after one was out, Shean cowtailed a Devaney fast ball to left to chalk up the winning...
Forming long queues at the 500 parimutuel windows scattered around the Downs last week, amateur handicappers, who would have been playing Stagehand, were getting their money down fast on last fortnight's Wood Memorial winner, Fighting Fox, full brother of Gallant Fox. 1930 Derby winner. Kentucky hard boots liked Bull Lea, who had broken two track records in his two races at local Keeneland this spring. Hollywood visitors (like Joan Bennett, Jack Pearl, Joe E. Brown) made sentimental bets on Myron Selznick's Can't Wait. Long-shot players took a chance on Elooto, named after Owner...
...train with the U. S. Patent Office. It was not until hard times sharpened their wits and aviation pointed the way that U. S. railroads took up streamlining. In 1934, with nearly one-third of the country's Class I roads in bankruptcy, with autos, busses, airlines fast sponging up passenger traffic, the railroads began to come out with so-called "neo-trains," fancy to look at, fancy in performance. First to enter scheduled service was Chicago, Burlington & Quincy's famed "articulated" streamliner, the Zephyr...
...Laramie. The next 327 pages tell how Laramie and the cowboy become close friends, how they rescue another cowpuncher, and how the three then hide out on a Colorado ranch owned by an Eastern tenderfoot named Lindsay. On this ranch there are three beautiful daughters, surrounded by mean, sneaking, fast-shooting, cattle-rustling, horse-stealing desperadoes...