Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...along with some of his board members. One of the new appointees was Utah's ex-Senator Abe Murdock, a down-the-line New Dealer to whom three G.O.P. committeemen strongly objected. The other was New York's J. Copeland Gray, a liberal Republican and up-the-ladder veteran of the Wage Stabilization Board and the Regional War Labor Board. The committee vote on him: 9-to-3. Gray's proudest boast: in 17 years as labor expert for Houdaille-Hershey's Buffalo subsidiaries (shock absorbers and firearms), no time was ever lost through labor disputes...
...week from Leipzig an A.P. correspondent reported on the primitive conditions under which the pitchblende miners work in the Erz Gebirge (ore mountains) of Saxony. They carry the pitchblende to the surface in crude buckets attached to winches. In one shaft workers must climb up & down a 500-ft. ladder. The whole area is under heavy guard. Once in the mine area, even volunteer miners may not leave. The pitchblende is flown direct from Saxony to the Soviet Union...
...went home and lay down on his bed. He ate his meager supper silently, then went back upstairs. In the darkness of that night, when the others in the house were fast asleep, Erich climbed the ladder to the attic. In the silence and alone, he hanged himself...
Flossy's skillful board has guided her up the ladder from movie-magazine interviews ("with male stars only") to feature writing on Hearst's New York Journal-American to a publicity stint for Duel in the Sun (Selznick dubbed her "The Personality"), finally to radio...
...Herd-Loneliness. At 53, stocky Ben Hecht could look down the rungs of a long, golden ladder. He had left Racine, Wis. in his teens with the idea of becoming a violinist. He became a boy-wonder newspaperman (Chicago Daily News) instead. In 1921 he wrote an involved but honest novel, Erik Dorn, but soon found his real bent in writing plays (like The Front Page, co-authored with Charles MacArthur) and dashing off lush Hollywood scripts for $5,000 a week. "I was always able to make large sums of money without giving money any thought," Hecht says...