Word: kegs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chrysler's chunky President Kaufman Thuma Keller stayed away from most of the conferences in Detroit last week. He could not abide the taunts of U.A.W.'s keg-headed Richard Frankensteen, who continually brings up the story that back in the bad old non-union days, Chrysler planted a spying boarder in the Frankensteen home. But Mr. Keller's able, labor-wise Vice President Herman Weckler, negotiating with "Durable Dick" Frankensteen and his boss, U.A.W. President Roland Jay Thomas, actually seemed to be getting somewhere. Within sniffing distance was settlement, re-employment of 58,000 idle Chrysler...
...memorial to himself ran into an obstacle. Some 3,000 feet dead east of the 5,000-foot east-west "instrument-landing" runway lies historic Fort Mifflin, which held out, but not long enough, against the British when they besieged Philadelphia in 1777. Fort Mifflin nowadays is a powder keg. Behind its ancient ramparts the U. S. Navy keeps some 450,000 lbs. of high explosives, convenient to the nearby Philadelphia Navy Yard. No Philadelphian likes to think about what might happen if an airplane landed smack on so much...
...encouraged to equip themselves to guide visiting game fishermen. Alf Kenney marveled at the huge 16-0 reel and the 54-thread line, which scarcely looked hefty enough to hold a fish like the 860-pounder which Churchill Bower had brought into Shelburne few days before, taken with a keg and handline...
...Troy) and Ursula Parrott (Ex-Wife), journalist Quentin Reynolds, advertising executive Jack Pegler (brother of Westbrook), literary agent George T. Bye. Saluting its neighbors, the Nutmeg announced: "We have no policy. . . . The Nutmeg is our cracker barrel. There will always be a seat for you on a nail keg. We promise to supply at least two problems where you had only one before...
...hectic days which followed it became clear that even the most embittered French political leaders sensed that France was sitting on a powder-keg. The President called in quick succession Radical Socialist Georges Bonnet, Socialist Leon Blum-both of whom quickly failed to form a Cabinet. A valiant attempt was made to arrange a "National Government" in which Right & Left would collaborate to spare France possible armed strife. The franc meanwhile sank on international exchange to its lowest in eleven years...