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...Open Faucet. On the West Coast, operators who had sworn they would not do business with the C.I.O.'s Harry ("The Nose") Bridges, came to an agreement with him in an aura of warmth and amiability. They had their fingers crossed, but all publicly agreed that The Nose was not such a bad joe after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Weigh Anchor | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...three months and get some 265 idle ships moving. There were still a number of problems to clear up, chief of which were wage discussions with Harry Lundeberg's A.F.L. seamen, who had had no work since no ships sailed. Said Lundeberg: "We have heard that the faucet is open and we mean to get ours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Weigh Anchor | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...Alexander Korda -based on Luigi Pirandello's difficult Henry IV. Says Welles: "So much first-rate talent is going in the direction of the literal. I don't even like the word 'documentary.' You can't go on proving that a rusty faucet is rusty and a dirty alley is dirty. They are using the camera as a recording instrument. I want to use it as an instrument of poetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...South bothered Harry Truman, he gave no outward sign of it. But inwardly he felt some sinking sensations last week. They came from another storm: a 40-knot northeast wind that whipped up ten-foot waves and tossed, the presidential yacht Williamsburg around like a cockleshell under a bathtub faucet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Southern Exposure | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...faucet keeps a-dripping and I can't sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Drip Song | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

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