Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had needed a few dollars, so they had hocked Eli's overcoat. When the actual murder was committed, Uncle Murray was somewhere else, he said, but he put the finger on Eli and Cullen. "Eli felt a little sick," said dirty Uncle Murray...
Approximately 100 men and women were finger-printed, photographed, and examined by doctors last night in Boylston Hall, as they were "processed" in preparation to taking training courses, equipping them to work in the central office of the Interceptor Command...
Recovering from the novelty of women workers in slacks (usually too tight), plant managers are beginning to estimate the contribution women can make: 1) they have greater finger dexterity than men (Westinghouse has known this all along, has used women in electrical assembly since the days of fancy aprons and high lace collars); 2) they are more immune to monotony than men, will keep at a tiresome job long after a man starts hanging around the canteen or water cooler; 3) they excel at inspection work where keen eyes and sensitive fingers often find flaws a man misses (Newton...
...National Association of Retail Grocers called this squeeze "disastrous," predicted wholesale bankruptcies unless OPA could iron out their problems in a hurry. Other retailers put a finger on the saddest inequity of all: the failure to provide a wholesale rollback is hardest on the patriotic merchant who tried to keep the lid on his prices (by averaging his costs), while the one who jumped his prices as fast as his costs rose is rewarded. National Retail Dry Goods Association's General Manager Lew Hahn gulped down his disappointment, promised that his 6,000 members "will do their best...
...vital retail end limped almost from the start. Long-term leases put Liggett into bankruptcy in March 1933. Thereupon the big manufacturers, long restless and dissatisfied, un-merged the combine and each went its own way. Enough United stock remained in manufacturing hands, however, to give them a finger in United affairs...