Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moderates. But when the weary delegates packed up their bags and headed for home they had constructed a determined, deadly serious, left-of-center plan of action. It called for: international control of atomic energy, Big Three unity, a guaranteed annual wage, expansion of TVA-style river projects, solid opposition to antilabor, Jim Crow* and anti-Nisei legislation. True to the motto, it vetoed the idea of a veterans' bonus...
...bluff was solid. For the mariners' biggest battle in history he had other allies. Joe was co-chairman of the Committee for Maritime Unity which embraced six other powerful seagoing and dockside unions.* All but one-an independent-were C.I.O...
...Chase. Last week the Army had the answer. The Hesse heirlooms, including fistfuls of diamonds, rubies and emeralds, gemmed bracelets, solid gold service pieces, a red plush autograph book first signed in 1603, and a gold-bound Bible-a wedding gift of England's Queen Victoria to her daughter and Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia-were on exhibit in the Army Public Relations director's office in Washington. The Army valued them at $3,000,000. While newsmen stared and photographed them, the Army told fantastic bits & pieces of the story of their recovery...
...Station Locker. Following Mrs. Durant's directions, MPs searched the house in Hudson, found some $500,000 in miscellaneous loot. The family was using a 36-piece, solid gold table set in the kitchen. But the most valuable treasure, the $2,500,000 worth of loose gems, was still missing. Colonel Durant had put them in the hands of a fence. Finally, he telephoned the stolen goods dealer, told him the jewels were hot. After an hour the fence called back. Following his direction, Durant led MPs to a dime-in-the-slot locker in Chicago's Illinois...
Billy's big assets were his youth (at 28 he was in his prime), speed and the best left hook in boxing. He had come out of the Army weighing a blubbery 204; now his legs were lean, his shoulders solid. His strategy: "Make Louis back up . . . when you do, he loses half of his effectiveness...