Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rules required double-time wages ($3.60 an hour) for work during meal hours: breakfast, 5 a.m.-8 a.m.; dinner, 5 p.m.-7 p.m. Because of a "lapse system" which allowed 20-minute rest periods, one operator figures that an average of only 17 out of a 20-man stevedore gang were ever on a job steadily. "Stand-bys," men whose jobs had been taken over by machinery in the middle of the job, had to be paid even though all they did was squat on the wharf and fish. Wrathful shippers took their business to businesslike harbors...
Phonograph companies have practically stopped issuing hot jazz records. If jazz could be given the needle, Guitarist Condon was the man to do it. An oldtime member of Chicago's Austin High gang, he organized bands for the first great jazz records of the Chicago school in 1927. Ever since he has been a catalyst of jazz, who never takes a chorus himself...
...seldom credible, only occasionally exciting. It has its moments (some Grade-A brawling, excellent underwater photography, an occasional astonishing set), but they are inadequate substitutes for real characters and a good story. The story itself is the successful fight of shipowners to break up a gang of salvage pirates among the Florida keys. Paulette Goddard is there, speakin' Southern and doin' her best to get a little honest salvage away from Raymond Massey, head of the highjackers and a rat, old-style. Romancing the pretty salvage wrecker around are Sea Captain John Wayne, who seems quite depressed...
Naturally, there were no funds to purchase stars from other teams, so Rickey dreamed up the farm system, i.e., buying minor-league clubs and developing young players on them. At first the other big-league teams hooted at "Rickey's chain gang," but by 1926 it began to pay off spectacularly. That year the Cards won not only the pennant but the World Series...
Some of the Nazis were pathologically brutal. Quite a few were kindly, intelligent or both. Swarms took snapshots of the girls. One gang tried clumsily to assault them. All were sure that England would go under within a month. A surprising number spoke fluent English. One & all were amazed to find women in military service...