Word: ruckus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simply took their earnings (from camp work) and bought their meals in Moose Jaw. The next logical step seemed to be to close the camp and set the holdouts adrift. The trouble was that Canada was getting an uneasy conscience and a close-out might set off a political ruckus...
Some of this Fleming has now translated into The Lightwood Tree. George Cliatt, fortyish, teaches history at Fredericksville Academy, while his brother is fighting in the Pacific. At a football game where a minor ruckus develops, a friend of Cliatt's adds to the confusion by yelling "To hell with the Home Folks Party." The friend is arrested on orders of the boss...
...into its fifth week. The question whether the powerful RFC should be continued beyond its legal deadline of June 30 has revolved chiefly around the way RFC had handled its biggest railroad deal, an $80 million loan to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The issue-and a first-rate ruckus-was raised by gaunt, balding Cassius Marcellus Clay, an ex-official of both RFC and the B. & O. The loan, said he, was part of a "gigantic steal," a "frame-up," and "a fraud...
...Ripping Ruckus. How the tangle developed is best illustrated by Lockheed. When Gross first decided to invade the commercial plane market, he found most of the big customers already sewed up by Douglas, leaving him no choice but to concentrate on Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc. Lockheed could see a bright future as long as T.W.A. prospered. But when T.W.A. was crippled by a pilots' strike, Lockheed suffered immediately-through T.W.A.'s cancellation of orders for eight new Constellations. And when T.W.A. was ripped by a refinancing ruckus between No. 1 Stockholder Howard Hughes and President Jack Frye...
...modest, sometimes wan little book, The Long Wing is unlikely to cause much ruckus in the lending libraries, but it is as able a first novel as the season has shown thus far. Author Elizabeth Fenwick, a slim, soft-spoken girl of 26, was born in St. Louis; her marriage in 1941 to a French instructor at Cornell barely outlasted the war. She now lives alone in a basement apartment near the Cornell campus, writing a second novel of family life. Says she: "Families fascinate me, probably because I've never had any real family life myself...