Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hook Fish in a district that has been Republican longer than the oldest oldsters can remember will take more than an angler's patience, more than luck. But this might well be the year. Ham Fish knows it. For the first time in his 22 years of political campaigning he has opened campaign headquarters, is working hard...
...hoses. Many Harvard men have the time to join the Auxiliaries and the work may be the most important in the volunteer service. It is amazing that so many Harvard men have forgotten their early yearning to rocket through stoplights and traffic clutching to the sides of a mammoth hook-and-ladder. For those who still remember there are plenty of chances to aid this vital Civilian Defense project along with the fulfillment of their childhood ambition...
...When the shipyards sprang up, everybody expected Harry Bridges' C.I.O. longshoremen's union to move in. But the A.F. of L.'s boilermakers got there first. Boilermakers are no longer boilermakers; the union includes welders, shipfitters, hook tenders, caulkers, riggers, shrinkers, flangers, "holder-ons." Some 70% of all shipyard workers in the West wear the union's button. But because payrolls change daily (men leave for the armed services, for better jobs), no one, not even union leaders, knows exactly how many members IBBMISBWHA has. Estimates are around 165,000 (Portland's local, largest, claims...
There was a small fire yesterday afternoon behind the parking lot in the Business School. The whole fire department, hook-and-ladder included, turned out for the show, but there was very little...
Closest to an exception to this rule is one letter from Alaska. "It's a real thrill to hook into one of these 30 pound salmon" and to admit that "we hope to be moved before winter sets in." Lost the "News" get the wrong impression of what life in the army is however, the writer hastens to add that "of course much can't be said...