Word: racketeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Enough Holler. To stave off courtroom boredom, newsmen covered each other. A columnist for the Cleveland Press, which is devoting at least two full pages a day to the trial, reported that Scripps-Howard Correspondent Andrew Tully, wheezing and coughing with a cold, made such a racket that Dr. Sam's brother, Stephen, turned to him in annoyance and said: "Drop dead." Replied Tully: "I can't. I've got to stay around for the hanging...
Even the most prosperous poets, said prosperous Poet Ogden (Hard Lines) Nash, sometimes like to "make a little dough" on a sideline. Nash's sideline: guest expert on television panels. Said he: "TV is the biggest racket ever invented. I love it. Half an hour's fun a week-and they pay you for it ... Most of the mail I get is from eleven-year-old children who say 'I loved your book, David Copperfield, please send me your picture...
...Hour Service. Since no one had ever built houses on the mass scale Price wanted, he had to pioneer the development of special machines and techniques. For maximum efficiency, Price set up eleven assembly lines and scores of sub-assemblies in his Lafayette plant. Amid the Gatling-gun racket of automatic nailing machines day last week, National's House No. 66,657 took shape at Lafayette. A wall swung down one assembly line, while ceilings, floors and roof were assembled on others. At one location, a machine cut and shaped a door and drilled all the holes for hardware...
John Dwyer, a brawny hiring boss on the brawling New York City dock? (and a prototype of Marlon Brando's movie role in On the Waterfront), quit his $10,000-a-year job last year to fight the racket-ridden International Longshoremen's Association. As vice president of the A.F.L.'s new rival dock union, he won thousands of dock-wallopers away from the I.L.A. But last month the I.L.A. won a Labor Relations Board election (by a scant 263 votes out of 18,551), and thereby held on to control of waterfront jobs...
From the dock of his waterfront restaurant in Freeport, L.I., Bandleader and Boat Racer Guy Lombardo climbed into a small boat with two outboard motors on the stern. As he started up one motor and raced about the water, there was the ear-splitting racket that has come to be associated with eggbeater boating. But when the motor was turned off and the other was tried out, there was a difference. From 500 ft. away, the motor could not be heard at all; newsmen riding in the boats could converse in normal tones, hear the slap-slap of the waves...