Word: slimmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elliot Bacon, Mike Coburn, and Paul Counihan are the receivers who will direct the slants of Jack Allen, Slim Curtiss, Ben Gifford, Dick Klein, and Don Pouty. All the pitchers are right-handed except for Allen, who is a south...
...moneygetters, the Brothers Rust, professed Socialists, were willing to forego profits rather than deliver a body blow to Southern labor. Holding 51% of the stock in their manufacturing company at Memphis, the Rusts offered marketing control of the picker to the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. The Union had too slim a purse to accept. The Brothers left the offer open...
...bootlegging that used to net such rich spoils is practically extinct, and perpetual surveillance of the underworld has resulted in exceedingly slim pickings from the labor and gambling rackets, which were expected to be gangsters' gold-mines after Repeal. Consequently there is no motive left for murder and violence other than private vengeance, and even this form of amusement has grown unpopular among Chicago's mobdom owing to the tireless efforts of police authorities...
...biggest industry, normally employing one-seventh of its total population (76,834). Amoskeag closed its mills last September, is now in 776 reorganization, admittedly faces possible liquidation because it cannot compete with low-wage Southern textile mills. No less than 3,669 of Amoskeag's workless workers (a slim majority of those voting) accepted not only the proposed labor peace treaty and the 15% cut, which would reduce minimum wages from $13 to $9.60 per week, but also the principle of determining pay scales on a "competitive cost basis." This would mean Southern wages in Northern New England. Said...
...vieux carré, Lillian McDowell, whose profession was listed as "cabaret hostess," teetered out of a saloon with a man she had picked up. Soon she staggered back inside clutching her stomach and moaning: "Slim cut me." Hostess McDowell died. Police began looking for "Slim...