Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cornwall, Ontario, 40 carpenters quit their jobs because management did not provide enough fires to keep them warm in the bitter weather, but they returned to work next...
Madeleine Carroll, peaches-&-cream cinemeritus who set an example that few movie stars followed and fewer equaled-she quit Hollywood fame & fortune for three solid years of war work-was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. France paid tribute to her Red Crossing among soldiers during the liberation, her broadcasts boosting Franco-American understanding...
...made no money. But Manilans took a shine to its brash love of controversy. One article stated the case for Filipinos who contended that they had had to collaborate or else. Another sailed into G.I. Joe, told him to quit criticizing the Filipinos, give them a break...
...editor, 34-year-old Novelist Dickens lasted 17 days. Then he quit, told the proprietors (a radical industrialist and the publishers of the then radical weekly Punch) that he was "tired to death and quite worn...
Married. James Ramsay Ullman, 38, venturer and adventurer who wrote the current best-selling White Tower, produced four Broadway flops in one season (1936-37), then quit because "I like to eat"; and Elaine Heineberg Baron Luria, 27; he for the second time, she for the third; in Manhattan...