Word: ken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer the union could only consider a countercheck quarrelsome-a proposal that Ford workers take a cut instead. Said Ford Vice President John S. Bugas: "We think the American people are tired of negotiations which seem to have no other aim besides gain for all parties except the consumers." Ken Bannon, U.A.W. Ford director, retorted: if the company would exert its influence with industry and Congress "to effect a substantial rollback in the cost of living," the union "will be happy" to withdraw its demands...
Good Omen. The whole team had caught fire from Boudreau. First-Baseman Eddie Robinson was batting .462, Third-Baseman Ken Keltner was leading the league with five homeruns, and Outfielder Larry Doby-the American League's first & only Negro-had slammed two more. Bob Feller had won his first two starts, saved a third game by quenching a 14th-inning fire with two strike-outs (after Boudreau had tried six other pitchers...
Bill and Coo (Republic), after assuring you of your sanity in a well-advised prologue (with a glimpse of Producer Ken Murray and a couple of other human beings), settles down to its real business and drifts serenely out of this world. The actors and extras, in this astounding film are 200-odd birds - mostly midget parrots. The bird actors whistle, or appear to whistle, jazz obbligati. They wear bow ties and little hats, operate a streetcar, a taxi and a hook-&-ladder. They live, it is painful to report, in a town called Chirpendale, whose main intersection is Birdway...
Here are the men who will guide the Crimson's '48 gridiron policy: from left to right, they are, Davey Nelson, backfield coach, head coach Art Valpey, "Butch" Jordan, line coach, and Captain Ken O'Donnell. The general staff will be completed tomorrow with the arrival of Elimer Madar, who will tutor the Crimson ends this fall...
When a Hollywood screenwriter gets tired of cliches, it's news. Last week in the Screen Writer, Scenarist Ken Englund (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) begged his colleagues to please avoid...