Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood logic, but it was a fact. Box-office grosses, despite a slight recent recovery, had not gone back to the wartime highs. Pictures had moved so fast through the nation's theaters that Hollywood's huge stockpile vas almost exhausted. The big sound stages were suddenly put furiously to work to supply the theaters' demands...
Lawyer-Detective Perry Mason wasn't looking for all the trouble he got. He was just trying to find the hit & run driver who had put his client in the hospital; all he wanted was a fair settlement. Of course, any Erie Stanley Gardner fan could have told Perry Mason he was headed for plenty of trouble. Before The Case of the Cautious Coquette is over, Mason gets tangled up with a dazzling blonde gold digger, unwittingly puts his own fingerprints on a murder weapon, runs down a smart killer who has the cops going around in circles, gets...
Tootell won both the discus and shot-put as the Crimson swept both events. Jeff's distances were 145 feet 9 1/2 inches and 47 feet 2 3/4 inches, respectively...
...should be obvious by now that in spite of what the voters endorsed in November, Congress is not going to indulge in any whole-hearted repeal of Taft-Hartley. If Administration leaders had been alert enough to compromise at the right moment, they could have put through a bill which might have repealed such legislative larceny as the ban on the closed shop even if it retained items like the non-communist affidavit and the union financial reports. They missed their opportunity; it will now be increasingly difficult to pass any new law with the opposition unified...
Considerable pressure, though, demanding rejection of the Sullivan Bill has been put on Senators during the past week by members of the Civil Liberties Union and the Progressive Party, who may succeed in making a bigger issue of H 442 than it originally...