Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bearlike John Lewis announced his appearance by rolling a rock down the mountain. Three days before the negotiations began, he filed formal notice of a labor dispute under the Smith-Connally Act-to which he referred as "that grotesque slave statute." Thus he paved the way for a legal strike vote within 30 days, and in so doing turned the act-passed by Congress in anger at the 1943 coal walkouts-into a weapon...
...asked to draw a chess board on a table, hapticals draw a player's view of the board and table top, visuals draw the whole thing in perspective, showing the table's legs. In a word association test, to the word "climbing" visuals are apt to respond: "mountain"; hapticals: "hard." Asked to think of the number of floors in a familiar building, visuals picture it from the outside, hapticals mentally climb its stairs...
...started by an elderly Manhattan industrialist, Raymond W. Marshall, who, seeing the great possibilities in Alaskan aviation, merged four bush-flying lines. As a result, its 30 planes are mostly flying antiques. Passengers often sit astride piles of rawhide and potatoes as the planes snake their way through mountain passes with supplies for isolated villages, mining camps and canneries...
Since 1942, when the British and U.S. air forces really began to work over Germany, they have subtly insulted Adolf Hitler by ignoring his fabulous mountain castle at Berchtesgaden. Last week it seemed for a while that the insult had been spoiled. Berchtesgaden had been attacked by U.S. Thunderbolts from Italy...
Henry Morgenthau Jr., who keeps track of the mountain-sized U.S. debt, was introduced in St. Louis to E. E. Pershall, a Missouri lumberman, who claimed that he was one of the U.S.'s minor creditors. "I worked three months as a $1-a-year man in the Treasury," he said, "and I was never paid." The Secretary of the Treasury promptly handed over a quarter...