Word: returned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight years the wives got $125,000 in profits for their $4,000 investment. And Commercial Carriers had no trouble at all with Hoffa's union. ¶ Hoffa and Brennan lent Eugene James $2,000 or $2,500 to start operations of a Detroit jukebox local; in return, "Jimmie" James, later accused by a Senate investigation committee of stealing $900,000 from a welfare fund, put Hoffa's and Brennan's wives on the union payroll (using their maiden names), paid them about...
...Ford II: "The rapid increases in wages of automobile workers over the past ten years, which were negotiated under the duress of your demands, have unquestionably contributed to inflation. Thus, having poured gasoline on the fires . . . you now stand by and tell us how to fight the blaze. In return, you say you will consider using less gasoline next time-or maybe only kerosene...
...oppose. Late one afternoon, Rayburn went over to the other side of the Capitol for a heart-to-heart talk with Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson. They agreed that some sort of civil rights bill had to be passed at this session; otherwise, the party-splitting issue would return to plague the Democrats in Election Year, 1958. Next morning Lyndon went to work to find out just what kind of a jury trial compromise could get past the Senate. He talked to Southern Senators-Georgia's Richard Russell, Mississippi's John Stennis, North Carolina's Sam Ervin...
...reached to smaller items. Ruled Deputy Base Commander Harold P. Sparks: street lights will stay off at night, air conditioners must be shut down, motor vehicles left unwashed, pencils and paper clips ordered only by emergency requisition. Moreover, announced Colonel Sparks, patrons at the base commissary were requested to return paper shopping bags for reuse...
...massive dose of whole-body X rays to destroy bone marrow that was making abnormal blood cells, then took 40 cc. of marrow fluid (containing an estimated 2 billion healthy cells) from twin Mary, injected the material into Laura's bloodstream. Though pleased that Laura's blood returned to near normal and she soon showed no signs of active leukemia, the doctors refused to predict how long the improvement might last. ¶ Psychiatrists who seek membership in the powerful American Psychoanalytic Association must first be analyzed themselves, according to the rule laid down by Freud (who analyzed himself...