Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ohio Pen ex-convicts. Three of them, a burglar and two forgers, have since left him for better jobs.* His other employes include students from Ohio State's engineering school, a neighbor, a penitentiary guard on vacation, and his wife. By last week they were on a three-shift, seven-day basis, and Price's home-built machinery has increased to five lathes, three drill presses, three milling machines, three grinders, a press, a power hacksaw. His original subcontract has been doubled...
Canvas, always imported for U.S. artists from Ireland and Belgium, is the biggest problem. With Belgian linen cut off, prices of first-class material are up nearly 300%, and most artists are making shift with domestic cotton substitutes. (The U.S. does not grow the right kind of flax for high-grade linen canvas.) Some artists are experimenting with beaverboard, shirt cardboard, many building-board substitutes (like Masonite...
...make much bigger concessions in the name of patriotism-as he and his cousin Joe Patterson (now publisher of the even more successful New York Daily News) did in World War I. If the Colonel again begins whipping up fighting spirit as hotly as he now does isolation, his shift will doubtless cut some interventionist ground from under Marshall Field's Chicago Sun. But the real question of how much strength the Colonel can muster for the battle is how much of the Tribune's original cast-iron constitution is still sound after years of arbitrary...
Repeats Last Year's Shift...
...clerk's voice boomed: "Allen of Illinois!" "No!" "Allen of Louisiana!" ";Yes."The count seesawed, nip & tuck. Not until the "Ws" were reached could Rayburn be sure. He announced the vote at 4:25, in the hushed House: "212 ayes to 194 nays." The bill was passed. A shift of ten votes would have killed it. Of 159 Republicans, 137 had voted against repeal. But if 22 Republicans had voted against repeal instead of for it, the bill would have been beaten. In the two days of debate the Republican leader, Joe Martin of Massachusetts, had said only five...