Word: land
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columbia River, one skipper abandoned efforts to unload his cargo after Bridges' men mauled a pick-up crew of local farmers and cowhands. Trucks were smashed, machinery damaged and several truck drivers beaten up. Other longshoremen began an air-sea patrol to look out for other attempts to land the forbidden fruit. But Harry Bridges seemed to be about willing to talk compromise at last. At week's end, he flew to Honolulu "for the purpose of negotiating a settlement...
...cows. The Dutch canals run merrily through mile after mile of cow pasture, and all the cows spend most of their time sloping fore-and-aft on a dike and watching people sail by. We started mooing at the cows to break the monotony of higher-than-land-level sailing, but one day we mooed, tacked, and tried to start the engine at the same time, and created a shoreline stampede that ended with us being grossly insulted by a sturdy farmer fortunately isolated by 20 yards of muddy water...
...time of developing economic crisis, the few of us lucky enough to land jobs face declining wages, insecure seniority, speed-up and general campaigns of terror and sabotage against our unions. But the greater part of our young people have no jobs at all, and walk the streets in search of employment, unable to secure adequate training facilities, unable to barter trained or untrained muscle and brain for over a pittance, forming a desperate reservoir of reserve labor and an unwitting weapon against the unemployed. Many of us are former servicemen, our meager veterans allotments exhausted, our post-war dreams...
...think otherwise." It continues with a description of America repaying its cultural debt to the rest of the world with "arms and economic plans that cripple your industries"; the foreword conands of translations of the original text have cluded that "like you, we love fun, our people, and our land...
...Jethroe, the Negro centerfielder and leadoff man of the Montreal royals for the past two seasons, should provide more customer interest for the Braves, Hurryin Sam stole 89 bases for Montreal in 1949 and batted 323, an average compiled mostly from line drive singles and doubles land successful bunts. He comes to a team which needs a centerfielder worse than any in the majors, and which needs speed on the basepaths even more...