Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cape Harting, with crated P-40s on her deck and a bellyfull of barreled aviation fuel, snaked through the Sandy Hook minefields one May morning. Rusty or not, she was good for 15 knots in a pinch, and sailed without convoy. Her chief engineer, an oldtime wrench-pusher named Seligman, knew just enough about high-pressure steam turbines to keep his nose out of the engine room. The men who ran the show down there were his assistants-notably Ed Greenewater, the first assistant, a sloppy, red-faced kid with an intuitive, possessive feel for engines, and Paul Jessup...
Speaking over a nationwide radio hook-up on Sunday night, Senator Taft and the AFL's William Green presented their conflicting views on the labor legislation which Senate leaders expect to bring to a vote tomorrow. The Senator defended the legislation as being designed merely to restore the balance of bargaining power which he claims was destroyed by the "one sided" Wagner Act. The logical structure of his statement is weakened by the contradictory argument which it contains. He declared that the bill which his committee drafted is for the protection of the "little business man. "Large employers are able...
...Leaning on a cane, hook-nosed Fernand de Brinon, former Vichy representative to German-occupied France, limped to an execution post at the Fort de Montrouge, outside Paris. A volley from the firing squad ended...
...grislier fate awaited three Hungarians. Charged with plotting a rightist coup against the coalition government, they were sentenced to a hanging a la Hongroise. In this procedure, the condemned man stands on a stool before a high post topped by a hook. A thin rope is put about the victim's neck and pulled taut about the hook. Then the stool is kicked from under the victim. His neck is not broken by the drop. As a measure of mercy, the executioner sharply twists the victim's head while a couple of assistants pull his legs down...
...Grau San Martin, himself an Auténtico, at last moving to oust his political allies, the Communists, from the C.T.C., thus curb them as a political party? Some Auténtico leaders thought so. If that happened, the C.T.C. would probably shed its C.T.A.L. connections and hook up with the A.F.L-sponsored, right-wing Inter-American Federation of Labor. But smooth, well-tailored Don Vicente, back in his Mexican penthouse office, said "our relations with Grau are still cordial; he believes, as ever, in the ideals of the C.T.A.L...