Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...huge cream & green arena of Milwaukee's auditorium a voice shouted: "I want to call a spade a spade and tell this convention I am a Communist." He was a delegate to the meeting of the C.I.O.'s United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. As photographers rushed for their cameras, press-shy President Albert Fitzgerald grabbed for his microphone: "You boys behave. These vultures are about to take pictures...
Last to drop department-store advertising was the Daily News, which had stored huge reserves of paper and early in the strike had boasted that it was doing fine.*Hardest hit was the tabloid Mirror, which shrank to a skinny eight pages but clung stubbornly to Winchell, Pearson and two pages of comics, along with a nubbin of news. (And moved a nightclub comedian to crack: "I'm so weak I can't even lift a copy of today's Mirror V) Whistling shrilly to keep up its courage, the starveling Mirror ran a daily silver-lining...
...famed edifice was born under less profane circumstances. Father Miller (which Father Miller is evidently unknown) started a tabernacle there in 1841. He won large fame by convincing a huge Boston congregation that...
...huge wealth of the country is in the hands of a small bunch of millionaires who are the heads of capitalist industrial trusts-steel, oil, copper, etc. The millionaires lead luxurious lives and sweat the workers as hard as they can. A working day lasts nine to ten hours. ... At the age of 45 a worker loses his health and becomes...
...Dead Was He? The fact that so many reasons were advanced was a good indication that something was wrong with the U.S. economy. The market's spurt last spring to the bull-market high in May was in anticipation of the lush profits caused by 1) the huge demand and 2) huge wartime savings. But for many a company the big profits had not materialized; rising costs had chewed them up. Nor was there any hope that the rise in costs would stop. Commodity prices, up 22% since the end of the war. were still soaring. Labor efficiency...