Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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As the blockade tightened, raw sugar crammed the warehouses and overflowed into covered tennis courts, gymnasiums-anywhere it could be stored until there were ships to transport it. The pineapples were ripe and soon would be rotting in the fields. Unemployment was sharply up; several small businesses had folded. Tourist...
Technically, what Harry Bridges' I.L.W.U. and the seven stevedoring companies were fighting over was a simple matter of dollars & cents. The stevedores wanted a pay boost of 32? an hour to $1.72, which they said would bring their wages closer to those paid on the mainland (West Coast longshoremen...
Seven weeks after Communist Gerhart Eisler sneaked out of the U.S. as a stowaway, his wife Brunhilde, 37, set off in style last week to join him in the Soviet sector of Berlin. Because she was being deported (for overstaying her visitor's permit), the U.S. Government had to...
On Jan. 14, 1938, a tough, red-faced private detective named Harry Raymond indirectly did Bowron a good turn. Raymond, who had been loudly threatening to "blow the lid" off the city, walked out to his car, got in, stepped on the starter and detonated a bomb which someone had...
O Gheros (The Old Man), as Greeks affectionately called him, was born on the Aegean Island of Samos in 1860-according to most accounts; some people declare that he was born earlier than that, but that he liked to chop a few years off his age. As an archeologist, he...