Word: pullings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between capital and labor which "cannot be put to mutually beneficial use unless there is at least an approximation to equality in their respective situations." In its May 26, 1938 issue, P. I. was still following the same line: "If either capital or labor goes down it will pull the other with it. ... It would help mightily at this critical stage if certain reactionary capitalists would remember that capitalism is not their individual possession...
...want is some help to pull my canal out of the dumps. It won't take but a fraction of what it did to "rescue" the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, TIME, July...
...Ethiopia's oil and mineral rights from Haile Selassie. In Scoop, poor blundering William Boot is far more fortunate. He falls in love with a German girl, stays in the capital when rival correspondents are sent out to a non-existent front, scoops the world when Communists pull a coup d'etat, are frustrated by a mysterious British financier. Although in parts as funny as anything that Waugh has written, it sounds just a shade too much like wish fulfillment to have the true cold blood of satire...
...home, the Government of Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye was forced to pull Japan's belt a little tighter to cope with the gnawing of war on her financial stomach. It decreed that some 47 types of articles (most important: cotton cloth and iron products), would no longer be produced for Japanese consumption. As soon as present stocks are exhausted, the populace will switch to staple fiber, synthetic materials...
When Leland Stanford ("Larry") MacPhail was hired to run the Brooklyn Dodgers last winter, the baseball world, with good reason, expected him to pull rabbits from the baseball cap of the Brooklyn club. With a flair for showmanship as conspicuous as his red hair, Larry MacPhail had in three years yanked the Cincinnati Reds out of a decade of doldrums by painting the ball park orange, introducing girl ushers decked in what he called lounging pajamas, starting a Red farm system and inaugurating night baseball. Brooklyn sat up in its seats...