Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formula for transforming the fashion show from a boring newsreel short to a full-length revue that both men and women can sit through without squirming. Incidentally it not only glorifies the U. S. girl (its showgirls include such well-known models as Jaeckel's Betty Wyman, Lucky Strike's and Chesterfield's Ida Vollmar) and U. S. fashions but implies that a couturier may indeed be a forceful masculine fellow. The cinemadequate plot and up-to-date dialog are the expert work of Samuel and Bella Spewack (Boy Meets Girl...
...beery "professor" at a piano, Chicago Musicians' Boss James C. ("Mussolini") Petrillo, in order to manufacture work for musicians, forbade his unionists to make any more recordings (TIME, Jan. 4). And haggard President Joseph N. Weber of the American Federation of Musicians has threatened a national musicians' strike if record and radio people do not do something about unemployed A. F. of M. musicians (TIME, Aug. 9). Last week the strike was still a threat, with the A. F. of M.'s deadline moved from Aug. 14 to Sept. 16, but in the important matter of "canned...
...issue of the late Literary Digest was a strange looking creation. Due to a compositors' strike, the magazine used typewriters to prepare its columns of editorial matter, photographed the final copy, made line-cuts from the photographs and went to press on schedule. The appearance of the magazine was ragged because the right-hand edge of the typewritten copy could not be evenly aligned. The Literary Digest, at this time, was offering a prize of $100,000 to anybody who would figure out a way to make typewritten copy square up like printed matter...
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...last week 115 test wells were drilling in 21 counties of Illinois' central basin and 75 wells were producing 10,000 barrels a day in Clay, Marion and Richland counties. First strike in Richland was the Ohio Oil Co.'s "Arbuthnot No. 1," brought in fortnight ago with a flow of 2,561 barrels the first day, which seemed to prove a 30-mi. extension of the known producing area. Close-mouthed oilmen now predict that the first year's production from Illinois' new fields will be between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 barrels...