Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resounding strike call read like a timetable. At 6 a.m. on Dec. 7 the five railway brotherhoods (engineers, firemen, conductors, trainmen, switchmen) would walk out on the Santa Fe, Rock Island, New York Central, Denver & Rio Grande, Katy, Pennsylvania, Southern Pacific, 44 other lines. Next day they would quit on the Chesapeake & Ohio, Chicago & North Western, the Gulf Coast lines, 40 others. By the third day, on 156 roads that carry passengers, food, coal, machinery and mail from New England to California, from Florida to Washington, not a wheel would turn...
Most successful method of malaria control has been to drain swamps and pour oil on stagnant waters. But on the island of Trinidad, this system does not work. A mosquito of different habits, the Anopheles bellator, was suspected...
Ecdysiast Gypsy Rose Lee, exposing her social consciousness, went to make a speech, but got lost on Long Island. Outside the swank Rubinstein store in Manhattan, picketers marched, chanting...
Artist Refregier, who still talks with the traces of a foreign accent, has been in the U.S. since he was a stripling of 16, studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design, once did scenic designs for Max Reinhardt. His first big mural jobs, done on WPA for a Greenpoint, L.I. hospital and New York's World's Fair and Riker's Island Penitentiary, got him so talked about that Manhattan's Museum of Mod ern Art decided to buy a sample of his work. A hard worker, he took time off from...
Advantage to Cuba is that it would help stabilize the island's mercurial economy. But many Cubans (especially sugar growers and grinders) are not too fond of stability when sugar prices are rising. The U.S. negotiators may run into trouble aplenty. In Havana last week, an executive of the Cane Planters Association blasted the plan, declared: "We believe the 1942 crop can be sold advantageously at market prices during the year...