Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...union lads in the bar (there were four of them at the time) had pulled out and set up a picket line. Two of them had quit since then (one to join the British Navy), but the other two, young Con Cusack and Paddo Young, had stuck it out. Every day now for eight years, with other pickets sent by the union, they had tramped up & down, from 10 a.m. to closing, carrying their battered placard: "Strike On at Downey...
Jimmy was 40 now but looked 30. On a stage stuck up behind the bar Jimmy drove out Jazz Me Blues and Nobody's Sweetheart in the same hard, terse, middle-range phrases that Chicago jazz fans had first heard...
...knees going under me. I said, That was a good punch, Lew.' I said it in a friendly, matter-of-fact tone of voice and it put the fight on a different plane. Lew snarled, 'Never mind that stuff, come on and fight.' But I stuck out a restraining hand and said, 'No, Lew. That was really a good punch. It was all right.' Lew paused again, and by that time I had recovered my senses...
...that the international air policy of the U.S. is all wrong. When it first told him this, Pan American Airways' smart Juan Trippe was plumping for the Chosen Instrument. When Patterson supported Trippe, the other domestic lines went after him like a flock of hawks. But Patterson has stuck to his guns. The current U.S. policy of regulated competition, on international routes, says he, will not work. He has some claim to impartiality in the argument. United was-and is-the only big U.S. line that does not want to do any large-scale international flying...
...more years, in effect pegging the price at last year's sky-high level of about 41.6? a lb., some 32% higher than world prices. By virtue of the present floor under wool, which has kept U.S. prices above world wool prices, the Government is now stuck with 480,000,000 lbs., more than a normal year's supply for the U.S. Estimated cost of the proposed new program to taxpayers: from $35 million to $75 million a year...