Word: locks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago a small army of workmen moved in. They built a dam across the Santee. From the Santee they dug a canal, built another dam, a lock and a powerhouse, diverting some of he Santee's impounded waters into the Caller Cooper River, which empties into the sea at Charleston. (The Cooper, as every Charleston schoolboy knows, "joins the Ashley River at Charleston to form the Atlantic Ocean...
James Caesar Petrillo, tough little A.F. of L. boss of the big American Federation of Musicians, last week put a hammer lock on two famed fiddlers and a famed orchestra. Boss Petrillo forbade two of the Boston Symphony's scheduled soloists-Fiddlers Efrem Zimbalist and Joseph Szigeti-to fill their dates (two each) this season. Petrillo could call the fiddlers' tune because they had joined his A.F. of M. after resigning from the American Guild of Musical Artists (the boiled-shirt union which Petrillo has been trying to bust...
Workers, confident they would get from the Navy what management had refused them, jubilantly went back to work. Fiscal arrangements, operating methods remained to be figured out, but the management reassuringly offered its knowledge and experience, turned real estate, buildings, ships and unperformed contracts, lock, stock & barrel, over to Navy's Knox; just compensation could be figured out later...
...former looked like a lock of death -to which the Germans seemed to hold the key. The latter was a deadlock of inanities...
...Attention: the keys turn in the lock, but for the affair of 300 square meters it is necessary to wait yet a few days...