Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right: it was going to be some party. The good old Chicago Teamsters' Joint Council had gotten two special trains, all Pullman and air-conditioned, to send its 188 delegates to the Teamsters' convention in San Francisco. Each train had a special bar car-a freight car, fixed up inside with bright paint and a sort of juke box. In one car alone there were 352 cases of Blatz beer, about $25 worth of pretzels and popcorn and potato chips, cases and cases of coke and soda...
...reading Jurgen. The night clerk was reading Lady Chatterley's Lover and the manager was reading Elinor Glyn's Three Weeks. The food was bad, too, but I never found out what the chef had on his mind." A Karachi professor asked another U.S. visitor to send him Forever Amber. "I'm interested," he said, "because I have a beautiful young daughter...
Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder had happy news. Six months after he had asked ex-Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. to send back those public documents that Morgenthau had taken for his diary, Snyder had everything he needed...
Ruth's individual record (set in 1927) of 60 home runs in a season. With a golf-like swing, Babe Ruth used to send the ball to towering heights, drop it in the bleachers or loft it over the right-field roofs. Mize, a competent workman with none of the Babe's color and crowd appeal, drills out line-drive homers by main force. This week he was slightly ahead of the Babe's 1927 pace. But to keep up with it, Mize will have to put on a mighty late-season spurt. In setting the record...
...Oliver W. Hill, one of 18 candidates for Richmond's seven lower-house seats, finished eighth with 6,310 votes, just 190 short of nomination. Said the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "We may as well accustom ourselves to the thought that the Negro citizens of the Old Dominion may send one of their number to the General Assembly before many years are past...