Word: hooking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Drew's answer was to throw the whole affair into Howe's lap: the Dominion Government should "now inaugurate its own immigration program." That put it squarely up to Ottawa. It also got Drew off the hook. Ontario's labor shortage is easing up. Moreover, immigrants are squawking at the poor jobs offered and the appalling housing shortage there. Drew's immigration program seemed headed for the scrap heap anyhow. Now he could blame it on Ottawa...
...real business and drifts serenely out of this world. The actors and extras, in this astounding film are 200-odd birds - mostly midget parrots. The bird actors whistle, or appear to whistle, jazz obbligati. They wear bow ties and little hats, operate a streetcar, a taxi and a hook-&-ladder. They live, it is painful to report, in a town called Chirpendale, whose main intersection is Birdway and 42nd Street...
...firemen, aided by two hook an ladder squads which had just arrived on the scene, were laying several hoses down the main aisle. Tom Cronin, the bartender and Jim Haunegan, the cook, were taking turns shoveling ordinary table salt on the fire...
...Communist-cored Greater New York C.I.O. Council, which was noisily defying Murray's edict against backing Henry Wallace, took a stiff right hook from Michael J. Quill, boss of the C.I.O. Transport Workers Union. Tough Mike, heeding Murray's gospel, quit as president of the council, and advised New York City's 42,000 subway workers and bus drivers to have nothing more to do with...
Republican timetable. Wyoming's Joe O'Mahoney proposed an amendment to restore taxes on excess profits. Arkansas' J. William Fulbright and South Carolina's Burnet Maybank, both irked because the House Agriculture Committee had killed 18 bills to repeal punitive taxes on oleomargarine, tried to hook a repeal rider on to the income tax bill. But in each case, it was no go. This week, the bill was overwhelmingly approved...