Word: hijacker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This modest B.R.T. program makes Notre Dame practically a simon-pure in 1946's dark brown scheme. That scheme is a mosaic of little schemes. North Carolina and Duke, just twelve miles apart, were out to hijack each other's squads as though they were fighting Yankees. Kansas and Missouri, archrivals, have been on the verge of war over a prize halfback named Forrest Griffith. Coach Jim Lookabaugh of Oklahoma A. & M. has accused Oklahoma U. of spending $200,000 to buy a football team. Said he: "Some players who will oppose us this fall will be drawing...
...American industry, fattened with war profits . . . has deliberately set out to destroy labor unions, to provoke strikes and economic chaos, and hijack the American people through uncontrolled profits and inflations. ... Its clear aim is to exact unconditional surrender of the American people and the United States Government. . . . The steel industry now has the full and sole responsibility for the strike which must take place. . . ." . Had Big Steel really been merely stubborn in refusing to compromise for the President's proposal and thus avert a strike? One industrialist thought so. Big, bustling Henry Kaiser rushed to the White House with...
...Coffee Hijack. A truck carrying 24,056 Ib. of A. & P. coffee from a New York warehouse to Philadelphia stores was hijacked and its contents stolen when its driver stopped at a Jersey City bean wagon for a cup of coffee...