Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United Automobile Workers' de mand for recognition as sole bargaining agent for all Chrysler employes, Richard T. Frankensteen, chief automobile union organizer in Detroit, telephoned a code phrase "My hand is up" to his lieutenants in the factories and within two hours all Chrysler plants in Detroit were shut tight (TIME, March...
...winner of one of the two highest prizes in the show-the $700 Altman Prize for a figure painting by an American-born citizen, which went to Charles Stafford Duncan for Girl in Black, a study of a sombre, thin-faced young woman with a curiously rigid left hand, seated on a sofa...
...older rocks of the Midwest, on the other hand, made most of their adjustments a long time ago and faults are puny and unimportant. Only 20,000 or 25,000 years ago, however, a sheet of ice a mile thick lay over the Great Lakes region. The tremendous weight of this pressed down the earth, which is now springing back in desultory jerks. Last week's quakes were caused by upward jerks of this kind in northern Ohio. Seismologists declare that the recovery from glacial compression is not yet complete, expect it to continue but never to attain destructive...
...captured Rebel and an old man who helped insurgents. A prostitute promises to reform, help the government cause. A man quarrels with his son for joining the milicianos, then volunteers himself. The sergeant greets his rank of recruits as ''Soldiers of Free Spain," shakes each by the hand, calls him ''Comrade!" When the Loyalist general is finally brought back, the treacherous Rebels manage to shoot him anyway. With their leader dead, the milicianos rush to their sandbag wall and laugh in hysterical, heroic rage as they pump bullets over the barricade. Purpose of the first performance...
Director Weaver had a hand in creating the Copeland Sea Safety Act passed last summer. Its most publicized clause has been the requirement that all seamen must carry continuous discharge books, containing photograph, records of voyages...