Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rebellion. They intended to strike at Mr. Lewis by striking and closing the mines. In strange alliance, company detectives stood shoulder to shoulder with Mr. Lewis' union organizers, swapping blows with rank & filers (see cut). By week's end an estimated 22,000 men had quit work in the district, mines were closed, and the revolt was spreading to District...
John Hertz is a businessman and a tough one. He founded Yellow Cab Co., in 1925 sold it (and Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co.) to General Motors for more than $30,000,000, retired to the race tracks. But he never quit working, has since dabbled in movies (Paramount), aviation (T.W.A.), more transportation (New York City Omnibus and Omnibus Corp...
Besides the classroom shortage, there was a teacher shortage in defense centers. In Washington, confusion was further confounded by a shortage of school janitors, many of whom had quit for defense jobs...
...Nichols, called "One Hundred Per Cent" because of his policy of keeping his First National Bank of Englewood, Ill. on a 100% liquid basis, hated the New Deal with a glacial hate. To depositors he said: "Go bury your money in a tomato can in your vegetable garden." He quit making loans, spurned new checking accounts, wrote down $24,000 of Federal Reserve stock to 10?, and siphoned out of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank some $2,500,000-most of his bank's reserve-which he stuffed in deposit boxes. Increasingly bitter and violent about the New Deal...
Last week, however, playing in his own tournament before a gallery of 1,000 or more (25% white), the Champion got the heebie-jeebies, posted 88 in the first round, 81 in the second, quit after nine holes of the third. On the other side of the ropes, he won some consolation (and a $200 bet) when Tutor Martin shot 146 (72-74) in the 36-hole final. Martin's 72-hole total of 292, two strokes better than that of Atlantans Calvin Searles and Zeke Hartsfield, won the tournament and the $500 first prize. Lowest amateur score...