Word: refered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your reporting has been getting poorer & poorer. ... I refer, in particular, to the article captioned "Texas Comes of Age" in your April 7 issue...
...begin with, you refer to the Lone Star Steel Co.'s blast furnace as the first and only blast furnace in Texas. This is erroneous. Another blast furnace is in operation at Sheffield Steel Co.'s Houston, Texas, rolling mills, though owned by the DPC. You further state that U.S. Steel had made a bid for the Government-owned Oklahoma coal mines which supplied coal to Lone Star, and that U.S. Steel wanted the coal for its Sheffield fabricating plant at Houston. The Sheffield plant at Houston is not a fabricating plant. It is a rolling mill equipped...
Frankie said he had overheard the columnist-Lee Mortimer of the New York Daily Mirror-refer to him as "that Dago son of a bitch." So he hit him in the jaw, once, and knocked him down. Mortimer said he was "just minding my own business"-leaving the place with an Oriental girl friend-when Frankie snuck up behind him and hit him back of the left ear. Then, said Mortimer, "at least two men" held him and he was slugged some more...
...comes into his office every morning and finds a molehill on his desk. His job is to build that molehill into a mountain before he goes home." It still gets his sinus in an uproar to recall that during the war he was forbidden to refer slightingly to the Ubangi -because, the censors explained, the Ubangi might be holding captive some U.S. airmen, and take offense...
During the fall the committee did not refer the action to the city license commission, preferring to postpone any move until the legalities of the situation were more carefully evaluated...