Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Bridges flew to Hawaii last week for an admiring look at the 14-week-old blockade that his International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union had thrown up around the islands. He got there just in time to learn how Hawaii's tiny legislature felt about it. By unanimous vote of the senate, and a 24-to-6 majority in the house, the legislators empowered Governor Ingram Stainback to seize the docks owned by the seven stevedoring companies, hire stevedores at pre-strike wage rates ($1.40 an hour) and get the ships moving, after listening...
Omaha, a city with a "welcome stranger" past, has been good to displaced persons. When a slight, sad-eyed Yugoslav named Eugene Stefan got there this summer with his grown-up daughter Heddy, he felt that he had found a haven at last. World War II had made him a wanderer; his wife had died of hardship, his mother had died in a concentration camp and his sister had disappeared. Afterward, Tito's government had refused him the right to go home to Yugoslavia...
...lofty detachment of a genius and the warm friendliness of a child. When he stared me down with a frigid hauteur, as he sometimes did, I could have been swept up in a teaspoon. But when he moved in on me grandly and condescended to occupy my lap, I felt as though I'd made the Social Register." Death had taken Scoopy the Cat, the most celebrated literary feline since Don Marquis discovered mehitabel...
Even though they felt more confident, most businessmen hesitated to make long-range commitments until they could see the U.S. wage pattern. Nobody would know that until the steel wage dispute was settled. For both Steel and Labor, the crucial fight was for public support, and that would be decided in the hearings before the President's three-man fact-finding board...
...kind of squeeze to worry about-the synthetics, which had already grabbed off big chunks of wool's summer suit market. Now rayon was getting ready to compete in winter wear as well. Mooresville Mills announced that it had developed a winter-weight rayon that looked and felt like wool, had the advantage of being mothproof, washable and only about one-third the price of wool...