Word: kept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wall Street, baffled brokers did not know what to make of things. Despite the strikes in steel, coal and aluminum, which had thrown at least 1,000,000 out of work and caused the worst postwar shutdown, the stock market kept right on going up. Last week, in some of the busiest trading of the year, the Dow-Jones industrial average rose 1.59 points to 186.78, a new high for the year...
...Time for Comedy. But the tight fix of Rank, who turns out 50% of all British films, is no joke to Britons. In the last twelve months, he has fired nearly 1,800 production workers (about 35% of his staff) and kept step with other British moviemakers by cutting the pay of most of those left by 10 to 20%. The drop in movie production was so sharp that Labor
These proposals make good sense economically, politically, and morally. The DP's being kept in camps in Western Germany are a great financial liability, and further complicate the political situation in that nascent country. If we accept our fair share of these victims of changing boundaries, as our government has repeatedly promised, they will become self-supporting; they will not, as various veterans' groups have complained, push vets out of jobs, since each DP must have a position waiting before he arrives...
...offensive drill emphasized running plays, giving Moffie a chance to get back into condition. The line included Pete Coyne and Duke Sedgwick at the guard positions and Al Wilson at strong side tackle. Coyne and Sedgwick were filling in for Howis Houston, still stiff and kept out of action, and John Coan, not yet fully recovered from his Cornell bruises. Wilson, a converted end, replaced Chief bender, who ran with the second offensive line and maybe used mainly on defense Saturday. Stretch mazzone alternated with Fred Harvey at right end and will probably be sound enough to face the Indians...
Except for the Deacons' one scoring drive, Dudley kept the Kirkland backs successfully bottled up. The Commuter backerups were usually able to rig an effective defense against Kirkland's single wing plays...