Word: ran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strategic Errors. That was John Lewis' way of repairing some grave errors in his own strategy. When the miners' contract ran out nearly three months ago he had modified the traditional "no contract, no work" policy by ordering all his soft-coal miners east of the Mississippi on a three-day week. But that strategem had fizzled...
...Passel of Hatfields. Nobody in Seattle had to be told what the decision meant. As work on B-50s and Strato-cruisers ran out, the Boeing factories would probably become ghost shops. Last week when Air Secretary Stuart Symington dropped in on Seattle enroute to Alaska, the city's leading citizens closed in on him like a passel of Hatfields ambushing a lone McCoy...
Cohen's wife ran into a closet. Unruh fired twice through the door, then pulled it open and shot her through the head. He cornered the druggist's 63-year-old mother in another room, and killed her. He trapped Cohen outside on a roof and shot him; the druggist fell to the pavement and the killer aimed, fired, hit him again...
Journal also ran an economic shocker under the headline SCANDALOUS PROFITS. The story: textile importers were marking up New York prices for profits ranging up to 450%. The carefully documented exposé started a consumers' boycott, sent cloth prices tumbling, forced a government investigation of the textile industry. Hundreds of Haitians wrote Journal begging for more issues and more expos...
...kitchen, because much of my time is spent there . . . If I am to create, and I believe God made me to do just that, why can't I create feast-day specials from eggs and milk and butter? . . . I once tried to paint a picture, but the colors ran and the perspective was poor. I tried to write music, but even the dog howled to hear it. I tried to weave a piece of cloth, but the warp broke and the wool tangled. So I have resolved to stick to my cooking and beat my way to Heaven...