Word: pit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smith-Connally War Labor Disputes Act-the great trap which Congress designed to bring John L. Lewis crashing down into captivity-was a confessed failure. Having dug the pit in anger at the series of coal strikes called by Lewis in 1943, Congress was now filling it up in quiet shame...
...rich Lake Superior region, the steam shovels are biting close to the bottom of the vast open-pit iron ore mines, including those in the famed Mesabi Range. Within 17 years the steel industry will have to depend on low-grade iron ores...
...night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul...
...Grese (who had worked in concentration camps since she was 17, and liked it). In the dock, she sat rigidly between Herta Ehlert and Use Lothe (see cut). When the prosecution showed a motion picture of a German guard slowly pushing a huge pile of rotting corpses into a pit with a bulldozer, Irma Grese calmly fixed her hair and blew her nose...
Harvard will open its soccer season by playing Brown tomorrow at 3 o'clock, in Providence. Coach Jack MacDonald has an inexperienced team to pit against the Bruins, who are fresh from a conquest of the Coast Guard Academy after a summer of practice. Coach MacDonald has not settled on a lineup yet and is still locking for a Freshman manager...