Word: lineing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last year, a highbrass conference in Key West decided that the three armed services would divvy up the defense budget almost equally, but ever since then, naval officers have had an increasing suspicion that their service was being cased out of its hallowed position as the nation's "first line of defense...
...Tulane, the pride of the South, gave its deep and rugged line a workout against Alabama (28-14), taking pains to reveal as little as possible to scouts for Notre Dame, which it meets...
...grimy St. Nicholas Arena, where many an aspiring club fighter has had his ears cauliflowered and his brains souffléed, the National Maritime Union's tough Joe Curran squared off again last week against his Communist rebels. But Joe, who kicked loose from the party line 2½ years ago, hardly got scratched. Delegates to the N.M.U.'s biennial convention amended the constitution to bar all Communists who apply for membership, just missed with a second amendment which would throw out the Reds already in the N.M.U...
Communist Max Reimann, leader of a bloc of only 15 votes in the Bundestag's 402, joined in the melee. When he described the Oder-Neisse line as the "boundary of peace," all parliamentary decorum disappeared. As the delegates raged against Reimann, two men in dirty, torn, Wehrmacht greatcoats, P.W.s just released by Russia, shoved their way into the chamber and yelled: "No home, nothing to eat, and then we have to listen to this Red gaff!" Communists charged a "provocation." Said one Christian Democrat delegate gloomily: "It's a good thing we still have an Occupation Statute...
...locating his store on a busy highway near the Indiana line and selling at cut rates, Meyer Jacob had become one of Chicago's biggest liquor dealers. But when the state legislature passed the Mandatory Fair Trade Act in July 1947, the state liquor commission tried to suspend his license for selling Penn Springs whisky 95? cheaper than the fair trade (i.e., minimum retail) price. Jacob kept his license while he fought the case through the courts...