Word: keevil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shipping department of Peter Keevil & Sons, Ltd., London wholesale provisioners, a worker named Jack Bryant found his cigarette lighter empty. Cleverly, he lowered a small medicine bottle on a string into the fuel tank of a company truck, pulled it out full of red gasoline, and replenished his lighter. (Britain's Labor government has decreed the red color for all gas used by commercial vehicles, for easier detection if it leaks into the black market...
Union shop stewards furiously protested; the company stood its ground in view of "the large amount of dishonesty and pilfering of rationed commodities." At that, 150 Keevil workers went on strike, refused to arbitrate until Bryant was reinstated, appealed for support to Transport and General Workers' Union headquarters. No Keevil provisions reached the shops, frustrated housewives bit their nails, and clever Jack Bryant sat at home with his six kids, snapping his lighter...
...open doubles T. Zinsser and Cohodas downed Dolloff and R. David, 6-0, 6-2; J. Anderson and Bob Ashley beat Keevil and VonBlon, 6-0, 6-4; Wendell and Zinsser defeated A. A. Bothner and J. Nelson, 6-0, 6-0; and Hanley and Deland topped Hall and Stearns...
Former Varsity coach Bob Ashley, defeated in the singles last week by New England doubles champion Charles Keevil, sought revenge on Keevil successfully in the University doubles, dumping the latter and R. von Blen, 6 to 0 and 6 to 4. Ashley's partner was J. Anderson...
...addition to Keevil, three other tennis players advanced to the second round, T. W. Zinsser defeated E. A. Cohodes 6-2, 9-7; J. E. Anderson defeated J. Wattenmaker 6-2, 6-1; and C. A. Lord triumphed by default over V. Brandt...