Word: flints
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...your Sept. 8 issue under the heading "Utilities-Public v. Private," you make the statement "Crisp County, outraged at the rates charged by Georgia Power Co., had bonded itself for $1,250,000, built its own hydroelectric plant on the Flint River...
...second on a two-bagger made in the ninth by Pinchhitter Andy High, a player once released by Brooklyn as not good enough; the third 4-3, principally through the steady pitching of Spitballer Burleigh Grimes. With the pennant practically won, the Cardinals then went to Philadelphia, sent Flint Rhem to the pitcher's mound. A few days before in Manhattan, Pitcher Rhem, scheduled to pitch against Brooklyn, had disappeared. Said he when found: "Bandits kidnaped me. They were gamblers, betting on Brooklyn. They pointed their guns at me and made me drink raw liquor for two days...
...sort of play in which the actors are all engaged in some form of nefarious and illegitimate enterprise, constantly flinging at each other such phrases as "Says you," "Is 'at so?", "Yeah?" It is the work of Eva Kay Flint and Martha Madison who turned out a creditable thriller last season called Subway Express...
Cities having a population over 100,000 were shown last week to have increased from 68 in 1920 to 93 this year. The 93 contain more than one-fourth of the U. S. population. Notable among newcomers to this list were Fort Worth, Tex. (160,892), Flint, Mich. (156.422), Miami, Fla. (110.025), Tacoma, Wash. (106,837), Lynn (102,327), and Lowell (100,300), Mass, (textile centres...
...Flint, Mich., last fortnight State Troopers bashed striking employes of Fisher Body Division of General Motors Corp. with clubs, arrested 23 men and two women. The strikers said they were angry because of wage reductions. The company maintained that no reductions had been made or contemplated. According to the strike committee, men's wages were cut on June 24 from $1 an hour to 40? and 50? an hour, women's wages in the upholstery department from 65? to 75? an hour to $1.12 and $1.20 per day. According to the company, changes in design and construction...