Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Budd, son of longtime (1919-32) Great Northern President Ralph Budd, became the second youngest president of a major U.S. railroad.* During summer vacations from Yale Budd worked on a survey gang for the road, became assistant to the Great Northern's chief electrical engineer on graduation in 1930, and in 1940 (long after his father had left the road to head the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy) became a division head in Oregon...
...unlikely role of a Manhattan amateur sleuth. Though saddled with a lackwit assistant (Leon Janney), set upon by an amorous blonde, slugged by a T-man, and tossed into a taxi with a corpse, Harrison never raises his precise, British-accented voice. The opening case, concerning a gang of diamond smugglers, was solved more by mirrors than logic. Sample Harrison deduction: a man who fell four floors to his death couldn't be a suicide, because he failed to open the window before he went through it. Compared to the storyline, the commercials (for RCA Victor) are models...
...Production Boss Jack Warner picked topical stories out of the headlines, produced such smash hits as Public Enemy and Little Caesar. He tackled many ticklish social issues which other studios avoided, such as bad penal systems (I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang), lynching (They Won't Forget), labor conditions (Black Fury). With Disraeli, the Warners started a cycle of film biographies; with 42nd Street, set the style for modern musicals...
Valdo and Aldo were still talking to the foundry workers when La Passionaria's gang, about 50 strong, marched into the courtyard chanting, "Get out of Italy, get out you traitors." Cucchi asked, "What do you want?" Someone in the mob shouted: "Let him have it boys...
Most of the students in Geology are geologists. The rest are an amorphous gang of outdoor men, homeless physicists, Texans, and mountain-climbers...