Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Naturally, New England textile manufacturers were lined up with the T.W.U. in this case. Continued lower wages in the South help to hold them under a serious disadvantage. Management and labor outside the textile industry were deeply interested too. If the Holtzoff ruling is finally upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, it can affect pay scales in nearly 50 other industries...
...course in a driver improvement school. Los Angeles has put teeth in the principle that "the pedestrian has the right of way." In most of the U.S., this slogan merely encourages the walker without inhibiting the driver; in Los Angeles, motorists know that the courts will almost always hold the motorist at fault...
...chain and padlock foresightedly brought for the purpose. "Thank God they didn't close the vault doors," said one prisoner. The head teller collapsed in a faint and the others kept quiet. "I hugged the wall," said one later. "I wasn't going to get fresh." The hold-up men had eight minutes before opening time, and that was enough. By 9 a.m. the three bandits were quietly driving away with $305,243 in bills, the most money ever taken in a U.S. bank robbery...
...bandits had planned carefully. During the hold-up one said: "We've been casing this joint for six months." They knew the bank employees' names and faces. They also knew that the vaults contained an extra $200,000 that day to meet local payrolls. In every way, the bandits were much better prepared than the Manhattan Co.'s 35 branch banks in Queens, three of which were recently robbed. Until this month, none of the 35 had any armed guards or protective alarms...
...Weber hold the varsity scoreless the rest of the way, but Rossano and Kessler matched his effort...