Word: rans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vote counting began, Stevenson got a narrow lead; but his backers' jubilation was soon quenched. Twenty-four hours after the polls closed, with 900,000 votes in, he had only an eight-vote margin. Then Johnson passed him, ran up a 717-vote lead...
...hiring hall had become the great stabilizer of maritime employment. Before the unions began setting them up in the mid-'30s, hiring of seamen and longshoremen had been a racket; men were obliged to buy jobs and kick back part of their wages. As the unions ran them, jobs were filled from a list of union men registered at the halls. It was clearly discriminatory; non-union men could get jobs only when there were not enough union men to fill them. Thus the hiring hall became a stronghold of union security. But it brought a measure of peace...
...South, not a single newspaper ran the angry series that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Reporter Ray Sprigle wrote after four weeks of touring the "Land of Jim Crow." Admittedly onesided, his stories of segregation, discrimination and degradation (TIME, Aug. 16) made the South look bad. Last week, the South's side was heard from. Many Southern papers which did not print Sprigle found space to print a Northern Negro publisher's account of his own untroubled tour. And many more were likely to print a rebuttal to Sprigle by Hodding Carter, the able Mississippi editor...
...into the Atlantic traffic with simple, serviceable ships, the lowest tourist rates of any line, and an inexpensive elevator system for carrying automobiles uncrated. A Jew, the Nazis jailed him and confiscated his ships. Released, he went to the U.S., built up a new Bernstein line that ran from New York to Antwerp and the Dutch ports. His ships were sunk during the war. Now, at 58, he is at it again...
...Though the company's basic patent ran out in 1943, Lane-Wells's 150 mobile truck units still handle more than half of all the well-perforating business in the U.S., and provide many another service on the side. The latest, which Lane-Wells performs under license from the patent-owning Welex Jet Services, is to free oil by means of a bazooka-like gun that fires jets of high-speed, fast-burning gases...