Word: fists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind closed doors, in committee meetings, disputes sputtered all week. In the Statler's lobby and bar, there were several short but solid fist fights between C.I.O. brethren. Though Lewis stayed in Washington, Daughter Kathryn was at the convention. So was Brother A. D. ("Denny") Lewis. Surrounded by delegates of his construction-workers union, he sat glowering on his hunkers through the convention, ostentatiously keeping his seat whenever the rest of the delegates rose to applaud. When Brother Denny went abroad he was accompanied by a beefy bodyguard...
Archangel. Sir Walter Citrine, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress, who recently headed a T.U.C. delegation to Russia, said last week that he had seen Hurricanes being landed at the White Seaport of Archangel "hand over fist." But he said that ice was already forming in the harbor. The Russians have assured Britain and the U.S. that Archangel's two new icebreakers can keep this route clear. For the time being it is the best and quickest...
Within 24 hours this Arctic fist (to weathermen, a "Polar Continental Air Mass") produced two disastrous crashes; 34 men & women died...
...Hughe Montgomery Knachtbull-Hugessen, British Ambassador, who was shot up when a Japanese plane strafed his car near Shanghai (TIME, Sept. 6, 1937), reported that three men operating a large slingshot barely missed him with a fist-size rock...
Prominent as a sore thumb on the fumbling fist of the U.S. war effort was the Bossert Co., Inc. of Utica, N.Y. last week. The Bossert Co., which in peacetime makes steel stampings, has been humming 20 hours a day, turning out an order of 1,000,000 cases for 75-mm. artillery shells. So fast did it turn out its brass cases that other plants fell behind in providing the other parts. From the U.S. Army came a strange command: slow up. Bossert Co. went back to an eight-hour day until further notice...