Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West's teamsters, has been acting like a bull in the A.F.L. china shop. He has raided other A.F.L. unions. He has even scared the wits out of roaring Dan Tobin, the teamsters' international president and Beck's boss. Recently Beck demanded that Tobin fire Lester Hunt, editor of the union paper and Tobin's ally. Meekly old Dan complied. This week, writing in the Washington Post, Hunt wigwagged a frantic warning...
...George Humphrey rules so huge and scattered an empire that he sometimes travels 100,000 miles a year keeping tabs on it. Yet he still finds time to hunt foxes from his rambling estate at Kirtland, near Cleveland, and to hunt quail on his game preserve at Thomasville, Ga. Publicity-shy, he stays backstage so much that few fellow Clevelanders know him well or even realize how big a tycoon...
...Scrap Hunt. The first big load of scrap from German battlefields (10,000 tons) arrived in New York City last week. Another 40,000 tons is expected by month's end. To keep the scrap away from speculators, the industry is forming a company to handle all German scrap. In another step to ease the critical shortage, 500 trade association executives will meet this week to launch a nationwide campaign to collect scrap from farms, plants and auto junkyards...
...there are still big herds of half-wild horses. Once the owners got good prices for these horses, but since the coming of the motor car, horses have not been worth so much. Farmers now make good money on this horse meat by sending it to Europe . . . Unemployed cowboys hunt the horses, shoot them, and make big money too. In this way the Government angles for the cowboys' and farmers' presidential vote...
Pitfall (Regal Films; United Artists) is the sort of melodrama in which an ordinary guy gets into extraordinary trouble. The guy (Dick Powell), a claims adjuster for an insurance firm, is a happy homebody with a wife (Jane Wyatt) and child (Jimmy Hunt). But duty requires Dick to investigate a Pitfall (Lizabeth Scott). He spends a fervid evening with her and even kisses her, right in front of the camera. This dalliance generates plot complications that put one man in the morgue and another in the hospital. As the picture ends, it is clear that Dick's wife...