Word: pavements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days. Combined after-tax profits of 200 big-time corporations tabulated by the National City Bank fell to $230,000,000, 16% below the first three months and 39% under the final quarter of 1941. While farm income and wages reached for the sky, corporation profits plunged for the pavement (see chart...
...This conduct must stop," thundered Sir Frank after welfare workers brought him further word that Spencer Street, a business thoroughfare little used at night, was "full of soldiers and girls kissing in wrestling holds, in the middle of the pavement, prolonged and unashamed." Every doorway, snoopers tut-tutted, was packed with necking couples...
Since his labor-peace dove was discovered to be an old black carrion crow, John L. Lewis has scarcely raised his eyes from the pavement. But under his bushy eyebrows he has been toiling deviously away. Last week he corralled a handful of wandering dairy farmers and solemnly anointed them with membership in his United Mine Workers. He was gathering votes and manpower to recover his ascendancy in the C.I.O...
...knocked the Ambassador and Frau von Papen flat on the asphalt pavement. It blew the trousers off the Ambassador. It blew another man entirely to pieces-probably the man who had carried the bomb-and spattered his blood as far as the Papens...
Without poaching on melodrama, Director Richard Thorpe manages to add triumphant suspense to his mauled hero's removal from the torture hideout by having him, though blindfolded, scratch the door jamb in departing, count the steps going down to the car, recall the turns, a dip in the pavement, a stop-&-go signal, the sound of a calliope, etc. All these well-noted clues come home to roost when he goes over the ground a second time...