Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unions should be expelled. The A. F. of L.'s Structural Iron Workers Association was authorized to organize steel fabricating plants in competition with the C.I.O.'s steel drive. Plans were announced for A. F. of L. membership drives in the cement, aluminum, food and filling station businesses, in at least two of which (aluminum and filling stations) there will be a collision with C.I.O. The C.I.O. countered by setting up committees to organize the 1,250,000 U. S. textile workers (only 85,000 of whom now belong to the United Textile Workers) and the petroleum industry...
...with no looks but a college education and hasn't she made a success of herself?" Mr. Vallee assured her that a college education was an advantage in any profession. The result was that Heloise agreed to go back to Drake as a junior last autumn. At the station she broke down and wept...
...mice. He inbred his first pair of mice, brown brother and sister, in 1909 when he was a Harvard junior, and has been inbreeding their progeny ever since. The herd accompanied him to Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. when he became assistant director of the Carnegie Institution's Station for Experimental Evolution (1919), to Orono...
...Cleveland, Police Captain Chester Burnett began a traffic law enforcement drive by tagging 50 motorists who had parked illegally in front of his precinct station...
When a railroad official asked passengers on a train passing through Aberdeen, Scotland if one of them had lost a couple of violins, up jumped Violinist Jascha Heifetz, sputteringly recalled that he had left his Stradivarius and Joseph Guarnerius worth $150,000 in the Dundee station lunchroom. "And did I have the jitters until they arrived by the next train!" cried he afterward...