Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kladno killing was that the sergeant was shot by a cowardly, unknown Czech. An unofficial (Czech) version was that he had been shot by another German policeman after a drunken brawl over a girl's favors. In Nachod, Germans claimed the Czech policeman had been killed in a fight between Germans and Czechs. The Czech version was that German police had invaded the Czech police station and had fired at the Czech policeman sitting...
...roughhouse brawl. They hit with the backs of their gloves, they hit below the belt, they hit after the bell. They spat blood, dripped blood, slobbered blood. It was the sort of fight a reputable U. S. citizen would be horrified to see in a waterfront saloon. Yet last week this primitive performance was billed as a top-notch heavyweight boxing match-staged in New York's Yankee Stadium to select a September challenger for the world's championship. And 18,000 presumably reputable U. S. citizens paid up to $11.50 a seat to watch...
...eleventh round, the referee finally stopped the butchery, awarded a technical knockout to young Nova, who was in pretty bad shape himself. The 18,000 reputable U. S. citizens, sitting under the stars in Yankee Stadium, cheered long and loud. They thought it had been a good fight...
...until railroads have money to invest they refuse to make money either for themselves or Baldwin by borrowing to buy new equipment. Should the New Deal, however, decide to fight Recession II by priming heavy industry instead of consumer purchasing power, it is likely to choose railroad equipment (either forming a corporation to rent equipment to tho roads or guaranteeing loans enabling them to buy it) as one of the surest, quickest ways to gain its end. The figure New Dealers like to quote as a "minimum" of new locomotives needed to modernize the U. S. rolling power plant...
...Eastern roads got a forced lesson in low-fare operation when ICC ordered their coach fares cut from 3.6? per mile to 2?, their Pullman fares from 4? to 3?. While they talked darkly of a court fight (which they did not make because Baltimore & Ohio refused to join them), the new rates increased passenger revenues. New York Central, whose big, bald President Frederick Ely Williamson headed an indignant protest committee of Eastern road presidents, enjoyed a $7,000,000 rise in passenger income for the year...