Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case in 1934. when NRA sent rank-&-filers trooping into the tight, little Amalgamated Union of Steel's aristocratic craftsmen. The young newcomers jolted Amalgamated's ineffectual old President Michael Francis Tighe out of his well-paid complacency by proposing to improve the steel worker's lot through an industry-wide strike. William Green rushed to Mike Tighe's side, helped him squelch this militant ardor, with the result that most of the newcomers quit the union in despair or disgust...
...double-exposed images upon a measured screen, but most of them required the vastly simpler although staggeringly expensive method of literal photography in sets six times normal size. These scenes were shot on MGM's famed Stage No. 12, twice as big as any other soundstage on the lot. Unlike Director Tod Browning's Freaks, or most of the famed Lon Chaney silents which he made, The Devil-Doll's hobgoblinery beguiles rather than frightens...
...Otis Moore, manager of the President's 2,500-acre farm near Warm Springs, Ga. last week: "It's bad on the farm. The way it looks now we'll be lucky to make one-fifth of a crop. We're going to lose a lot of money...
...made a name for himself as one of the most useful Saints in Zion. After the hardships of the journey and the first starvation days in the new land, he was further upped in rank to one of the Twelve Apostles, soon became known as the canniest of the lot. When the Mormons planned to extend their empire to California, Rich was one of the two apostles they sent in charge of the expedition. The California experiment eventually petered out, but as a reward for his efforts, Rich was sent to Europe with another apostle on an innocent junket...
...broker-dealer, plumping for segregation of the two functions. Requesting no new legislation, SEC announced that its first step would be to offer floor members of stock exchanges the choice of being either straight brokers or traders for their own accounts. Exceptions will be made for specialists and odd-lot dealers...