Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rested on the labor-management conference due to convene in Washington Nov. 5. Politicos devoutly hoped that the big confab might have a formula for peace before the entire automobile industry could be struck. But it looked as though Harry Truman was operating on a split-second timetable. His luck would have to be good to head off a complete shutdown in Detroit...
...opposite pole was Notre Dame, whose loud moans indicated that Irish luck had run thin. The year's top job-switchers, Coaches Ed McKeever (Notre Dame to Cornell) and Carl Snavely (Cornell to North Carolina) also sang a sad song-"Not this year"-but both managed to squeeze through their openers...
...with a chronic hangover. In the tick of a time fuse he is being smuggled into Japan by the Korean underground as Sergeant Tomo Takashima, a returning war hero. He gets a job in a prison hospital, where he finds his nuclear scientist. By a streak of dazzling luck he also finds that the hospital's head nurse is his old girl, Abby (Barbara Hale...
...Lucky General. Eichelberger, never a man to blow his own horn, attributed his showing to his troops and to a lot of luck. His soldiers knew that he had a lot more than luck...
...Lean, blond Peter Farrell Hudson, 36, medically discharged from the Army a year ago, disregarded such warnings. He settled in Nebraska's rolling North Platte valley, good land for wheat, corn and oats, dreamed of changing it into one mammoth, highly profitable truck garden. But Hudson had no luck when he tried to get a loan under the G.I. bill to start farming. Finally defeated by red tape, he went to work for the Union Pacific as a brakeman at $450 a month. His wife Helen got a $25 a week job as a bookkeeper. Together they saved...