Word: railing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pittsburgh, A.F.L. restaurant workers tried a new strike technique. One noontime, they padlocked a Brass Rail lunchroom, held 28 customers imprisoned for 35 minutes...
Broken Cross. More bad news came from the "Chengchow cross," where the east-west Lunghai railroad intersects the rail line running south from Peiping to Hankow. By December, two Communist columns had broken the south and east arms of the cross. (The northern arm had been broken since the end of the Japanese war.) Another Communist army moving southward cut the west arm. The Communists appeared to have made good on their promise to "nail the Nationalists to the Chengchow cross...
Cornetist Jimmy MacPartland, who sparked the jazz revival in a smoke-filled joint in the Loop called the Brass Rail Theater Bar (TIME, May 5), had moved to a new Loop bar, and taken his followers along, like the Pied Piper of Hamelin...
...three women in tow, a Hearst reporter and photographer strolled into a deserted Los Angeles bar. They moved the bar stools (required by California law) to one side, and the photographer shot a waist-to-toe picture of the reporter and women, standing with their feet planted on the rail...
...manhood as a construction engineer (John Wayne) who, like the steam shovel he strongly resembles, works all right when he is building things. But he looks absurd trying to speak English or kiss a girl. The U.S. ideal of villainy is represented in this movie as a Latin American rail magnate (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) who dresses for dinner, manages a compound sentence without stuttering, and tries to keep his lovely daughter (Laraine Day) from getting hitched to a steam shovel...