Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon after the trains stopped running last week, President Truman went to a White House garden party, sipped some lemonade and calmly ate a dish of ice cream. It was a party for disabled war veterans, arranged several weeks before. Harry Truman shook hands with some 900 wounded men, many of them in wheel chairs. One disabled man asked the President how the railroad strike was going. Said Harry Truman: it was still...
...dispute ever a few cents an hour pay raise or the provision of ice water in freight train cabooses is a matter of momentary concern. The fundamental question is "Where is the dividing line between private rights and public responsibility?". This nation has recognized labor's right to negotiate with management through the medium of collective bargaining; but collective bargaining becomes no more than a meek petition unless labor can back its requests with a strike or the threat of a strike. It is tyranny for the government to say "Thou shalt not strike" to workers in a private industry...
...toughest town along the Mississippi, there were no prostitutes, gamblers, policy games or gunmen. Crump had simply banished them. Beale Street Negroes could damage each other only by exercising some ingenuity. Crump's cops shook them down nightly for pistols, Arkansas toothpicks,* clubs, brass knucks, razors and ice picks. There was virtually no grafting-Crump forbade it. Officials who took money for themselves (as opposed to accepting contributions from liquor stores, business houses, jukebox and pinball operators for the Crump machine) were prosecuted...
...huge elevator at bleak, ice-locked Churchill on Hudson Bay has hoarded 1,800,000 bushels of prairie wheat since 1939 (18% of what the U.S. dark-bread-&-smaller-loaf campaign expects to save for Europe). For the first time since war's outbreak nipped off commercial traffic, six British ships this summer will dock at Churchill in ice-free August and September to pick up the wheat. The $13,263,000 port, with its $32,638,000 rail link to The Pas, Manitoba, was built to save the prairies 1,000 miles on the water haul of wheat...
Whatever else can be said about her, no one paints a pelvis or a skull more cleanly or searchingly than O'Keeffe. Her brush, like a surgical knife, pares the bony involutions to paper thinness, sculpturing them in icy white against the ice-blue sky of New Mexico-where she spends half of each year...