Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Home Rule. In Chicago, Gilbert Johnson sued for divorce, complained that his wife not only forbade him to read any magazines (too many women in them), forbade him to read about women in the newspapers, and turned off the radio whenever a woman's voice was on, but also thrashed him occasionally...
Lessons for Revolutionists. Negro Manning Johnson, once a party member and now a civilian employee of the U.S. Navy, came to testify. Before he deserted the Reds, because "they were trying to exploit the Negroes," Johnson was a member of the party's Trade Union Unity League, whose job it was to fight the A.F.L. He had spent three months in a Manhattan training school for revolutionists...
Timing & Tricks. By now, Robbie has carefully catalogued pitchers' weaknesses. He has, for example, discovered that when Boston's Si Johnson crooks his neck in a certain way, Si has stopped worrying about the base-runner and is about to pitch. This discovery gives Jackie a split-second head start on his way to second...
...California, deliberately slow down freight trains by mutual agreement to eliminate competition. Replied ODT: in the first half of 1947, all Western roads maintained faster freight-train speeds than Young's C. & O. Countered Young: "Statistical lies," inspired by the prejudiced ICC, of which ODT Director J. Monroe Johnson is a member...
Commuter's-Eye View. Some of the plants, like the efficiently elegant one recently completed by Johnson & Johnson (surgical dressings) in Cranford, N.J. (see cut), are far removed from the belching smokestacks that were once the hallmark of industry. Each week brings news of new factories that will change the economic shape of some small town. Last week, for example, Ball Brothers Co. (glass preserving jars) announced the opening of a $3,000,000 plant in El Monte, Calif., and the Electric Auto-Lite Co, (lighting, starting and ignition equipment) announced that it will soon start work...