Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pittsfield, Mass, was the first to cry havoc. Police authorities in Boston and many another New England city jumped into line. New Orleans, one of the three cities west of the Mississippi which banned LIFE, used an 1884 statute to pull the magazines off the newsstands. In Tucson, only far-Western city to object, the publisher of the Arizona Star sold 25 copies of LIFE over his own counter in defiance of the police. The Memphis Press-Scimitar contrasted the local ban on LIFE with open sale at the same time of Sex Guide, The Nudist and Tattle Tales. Though...
...Said Sir Abe when he heard of the false report: "They won't be able to pull my leg any more...
Last week the U. S. Government did the following for and to U. S. Business: C. Contemplated resuming "pump-priming" with expenditure of as much as $4,250,000,000 to pull the nation out of depression doldrums...
That the "strikers" did not pull the switches but instead carried on as usual without benefit of outside management was at once relieving and disturbing. Here was a strike that was not a strike: the "strikers" were working and the product was being produced. (Whether or not the "strikers" expected to be paid for working while striking was not clear.) Unintentionally, militant Michigan Labor had, in effect, provided an object lesson in bloodless revolution...
...again met in London last week, this time to establish not only the export quota for the next three months, but a new planting limit. Recognizing the present slump, I. R. R. C. set the quarterly quota at 60%. Optimistic for the long pull, however, I. R. R. C. upped its bases along a graduated line. The 1934 base was 996,500 tons. Last week the I. R. R. C. proposed bases...