Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus was illustrated the pull-devil-pull-baker tension which gives a desperate organization the outward appearance of inactive somnolence. The NRA was not an unmixed blessing to the A. F. of L., for it brought into the Federation a horde of workers from hitherto unorganized, straight-line production industries. Result is serious factionalism, with Mr. Green, most of the 17 members of his all-powerful executive council and the oldtime, conservative craft unionists on one side and on the other a mass of younger, more radical workers from the modern assembly line. Impasse caused by the conflicting policies...
Crempa's device to annoy Public Service was to tie a long string to a stone, throw it over the high-tension wires that crossed his property, pull a metal object across the wires, short-circuiting the line and putting out the lights in three neighboring towns. He did this some 21 times. Public Service fought back by charging him with malicious mischief, making him serve a six-month jail sentence in 1931. After that the company got an injunction to keep Crempa from tampering its wires. When he continued his short-circuiting pranks, the court cited...
Fortnight ago a chesty little Italian stood on the platform in Manhattan's Grand Central Station, proudly watching a train pull out for Montreal. Aboard it was his San Carlo Opera Company, starting on its 26th consecutive season, solidly booked for 35 weeks. Chesty little Fortune Gallo has long challenged anyone who says that opera cannot pay. San Carlo's record last week again proved him right. The Company played in Montreal, Ottawa, Hamilton, Toronto.* During the week 25,000 persons crowded to hear Fortune Gallo's troupers...
Although the small Hillsdale (Mich.) County Fair offers only $35 for its biggest prize, year after year the best teams of draft horses in the U. S. are sent there to pull. Reason is, the quack grass of Hillsdale's paddock gives heavy horses good footing and ten world's records have been tugged across its surface...
...final, with the dynamometer (pull-measuring device) set at 3,900 Ib., a new high mark, the equivalent of a rolling load of 130 tons or of nine monster plows cutting 14-inch furrows, the East's Flaxie & Dan on their first trial pulled hard, started the load, got it half way down the 27 1/2-ft. strip they had to cover. Then they suddenly stopped, mistaking an overexcited spectator's shout of GO! GO! for WHOA! WHOA...