Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rank and file for settlement and nothing can change it now." A peace vote in the unions was set for this week. No empty settlement will this be for the strikers, however. Tentative agreements gave the unions their demands for 1) control of the hiring halls which pick men for jobs when employers call for seamen, 2) an eight-hour day (or less) with increased pay instead of time-off for overtime, 3) union recognition...
Licensed men (masters, mates, pilots, engineers) won pay increases and other benefits but conceded the right of shipowners to pick ships' officers and employ non-union men. Two of the seven striking unions had not yet reached agreements, but settlements were expected by arbitration or otherwise. Human nature in the West had grown just as weary as in the East...
...that a successful criminal practice is impossible for him without the aid of the town's boss, Grady (Thomas Mitchell). After a succession of legal shellackings he talks business with Grady. But Moreno soon gets too big for Grady's taste and when the time comes to pick a new District Attorney, Moreno is cashiered. His fighting failure brings him to the attention of the Governor, who appoints him special investigator of some cases involving illegal stock promotion. Moreno pursues his investigation even though his girl Abbey (Florence Rice) asks him not to. At a public hearing...
...freight agents may still act as though business were a bore, some conductors may still regard passengers as trespassers, but by & large the roads are out to make friends as they never were before. Faster freight schedules, highly-publicized high-speed trains, 8,000 air-conditioned passenger cars, freight pick-up-&-delivery service are all exciting evidences of the railroads' rebirth. Most spectacular bid for patronage was the 2? base passenger fare, inaugurated by southern and western roads where the traffic is light and forced on all roads last June by the Interstate Commerce Commission over the loud protests...
...radioed: "Coming down to localizer [beam] at field." He was then some ten miles from Burbank and only ten from the spot where a United Airliner smashed fortnight ago with death to twelve (TIME, Jan. 11). At that point he got off the beam, began circling to pick it up. Suddenly, out of the haze loomed a mountain. It was too late to clear it. With quick skill, Pilot Lewis cut his engines, pulled up the Boeing's nose, pancaked...