Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offer. Truth was that Chrysler was short of steel anyway, could easily sit the strike out for a while until supplies accumulated. The U.A.W. executive board grimly asked its members to contribute $5,400,000 to its war chest. "It looks like a long, tough strike," said a grey-haired mechanic...
...Moscow. Factory workers on their way to their jobs queued up, as usual, for their morning papers. Then they saw the headlines: America had proposed a conference to "compose differences." Through the grey dawn, the news spread rapidly. Before Moscow's huge notice boards, in trolleys and subways, people happily nudged each other and said: "Good, huh? Good!" Cried a young teacher: "There are many honest fellows in America who don't want war." An engineer told an American: "Molotov will get together with you folks yet, you just...
...Short (4 ft. 10 in.) and pear-shaped, Sadie looks rather like a good-natured witch (a role she played last Halloween with obvious relish on WOR's Daily Dilemma). Her other assets as a quizgoer include ten years of experience, a bobbing head of tight grey curls, a Brooklyn accent, and an eagerness to do virtually anything in public for laughs-and prizes...
Arcaro showed all these qualities one day last February at Santa Anita, aboard an iron-grey stallion named Talon. He was last going into the far turn, with 17 horses ahead of him. He whipped and drove the horse through holes that looked impassable. Then, with a spectacular finish, he won the $50,000 San Antonio Handicap. The next day, watching a newsreel of the race, Arcaro shivered at the chances he had taken...
Sally (music by Jerome Kern; lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse and Clifford Grey; book by Guy Bolton; produced by Hunt Stromberg Jr. and William Berney) constitutes almost as aromatic a memory of the Ziegfeld era as the Follies themselves. Anyone seeing it on Broadway last week must have guessed, if he did not know, that it had once been a great hit (1920-35). But though Sally still has an air, it shows...