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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...C.M.U. meetings, although Joe's single union represented by far the largest number of men, he was outvoted by Bridges and the Bridges' coalition. They used the C.M.U. as a political weapon without Joe's approval. They undercut him and outmaneuvered...
...into a sizable section and a half (960 acres). A few years ago he turned his farm over to his sons, now lives comfortably with the help of his old-age pension. In his time, the Ukrainians in Canada have increased to 325,000, the Dominion's sixth largest ethnic group. "I have no desire to return to the Ukraine, even to see it," he says. "My life in Canada has been too happy to want to return...
...compassion. Last week his large, loyal following could get Courts Day by Day in book form, an anthology of what many newsmen think is the best reporting of its kind. It is the best-read feature in the otherwise undistinguished London Evening News, which has the world's largest evening newspaper circulation. Other London papers have tried to ape his column, but usually give up for lack of a Jones to write it. But Jimmy, who is 44, regards it as just a pleasant routine chore, and to the annoy ance of his wife, a onetime reporter...
When Francis Truslow takes over, March i, he will run the second largest securities market in the U.S.-and an eminently respectable institution. It was not always thus. The Curb's founders, small-fry brokers, began informal trading about 100 years ago on the curbstones of Manhattan's financial district. By 1900, the outdoor market had settled down in Broad Street. There, no matter what the weather, traders gathered daily to trade securities in a bedlam of shouting and sharp dealing. Nobody needed a license-only stout lungs, a fur-lined coat...
...largest blasts which has been recorded, that of 211,700 lbs. of dynamite at the Volunteer Mine, Mich., produced a maximum movement in a building a quarter of a mile away of only 52 thousandths of an inch...