Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raise and a closed shop guarantee. Until Campbell Soup Co. promised to abolish its company union, grant 1929 wage levels (30% to 40% higher than they were getting), 1,000 soupmakers pledged themselves to stay on strike. In Baltimore 2,300 airplane workers threatened to walk out of the Glenn L. Martin plant unless a 25% increase was promptly granted...
...school economies, the same warnings of national disaster which have been heard at every educators' conference for the past three years. "It is quite as important to balance the nation's life as to balance the nation's budget," cried University of Wisconsin's President Glenn Frank. "It is quite as important to prevent a social deficit for the future as to wipe out a financial deficit in the present...
...Stainback, bought for $75,000 from Los Angeles. The Philadelphia Phillies' Out fielder Henry Oana is the only Hawaiian in the league. The New York Yankees have Floyd Newkirk whose pitching hand, like that of famed Mordecai Brown, onetime Chicago Cub, has only three fingers. Luckiest rookie was Glenn Chapman of the Dodgers who, on the first day of practice at Orlando, hit the first ball ever pitched to him by a big-leaguer for a home-run. Considered ablest last week, when most of their confrères were on their way back to minor league teams, were...
...Glenn Cunningham, famed Kansas miler, a 1,000-yd. run at Hamilton, Ont., setting a new Canadian record. Glenn Cunningham, a mile race at Indianapolis; from Ray Sears who fortnight before made a new American record for two miles...
...long dreamed of connecting with Britain's three-continent Imperial Airways by way of Bermuda and the Azores. That goal seemed one notch nearer last week with the 8-42 ready to fly, with two more clippers under construction at the Sikorsky plant and three more at the Glenn L. Martin plant in Baltimore...