Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gnarled hands reached over the side, began to pull up the first of the "gang" nets, each "gang" made up of 24 gill nets 4 ft. wide and 300 ft. long, which may extend for a mile and a half. Motors of the automatic net lifters began to cough. With thousands of lake herring trapped by their gills in the 2½-in. meshes, the nets poured into the boats for two hours a glistening stream of thousands of pounds of fish. Nets cleared, lunch eaten and new nets set, the fishing fleet turned homeward, from Duluth to Munising, Mich...
...show business. In 25 years he has never changed his manner, and very little of his matter. Yet despite the fact that the few movies in which he has appeared have been flops, despite the fact that he has warily avoided radio contracts, he and his company can still pull an average of $7,500 weekly out of U.S. theaters and nightspots from coast to coast. Ted Lewis has survived the death of vaudeville, the invention of sound film, the development of modern broadcasting. And he is still packing them...
...Baruch accepted a new indoor job last week. The job: 1) to put muscle into the Administration's fight against inflation; 2) to pull together the masses of Washington's postwar plans. This was a task of dazing magnitude, because probably all Government postwar domestic policy will be based on the Old Man's findings. His staff: mostly his present right-hand man, Banker John Hancock. The office: "I don't know where definitely. But a park bench is too flippant for this...
Wage Floor. The implications of a worldwide minimum wage are enormous. Its proposal by a member of an Empire Government, even in unofficial capacity, is arresting. Was he thinking of China? India? the Malay States? Or was he groping for some Archimedean machine to pull Britain, the U.S., Russia into line on a world trade basis? Morrison said only that his purpose was to eliminate "that worst of all forms of competition, which is based on the abject poverty and misery of the workers in socially backward countries...
...corner and that, once the corner was turned, the Germans would be smashed in a matter of days; the German transportation system had already collapsed, and was, of course, the reason for Hitler's backing out of Russia; the German Army, particularly its Prussian core, was about to "pull a Badoglio," and throw Hitler to the wolves...