Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Liberty, another chronic money-loser, tried a new tack to get out of the red tide and into the black. Except for a couple of war years, it had gone profitless under Founders Joseph M. Patterson and Robert R. McCormick. And it had failed to pay its way for their successors, Bernarr Macfadden and Paul Hunter. A weekly until last February and a fortnightly since, Liberty (circ. 1,600,000) will now be a 10? monthly...
...German women tack their husbands' titles on to their own names. A classic German joke tells of the woman who called herself Frau Hatchet-Murderer Müller...
...them in by boxcar and the C.I.O. workers helped unload them. Then Teamster Boss Dan Tobin told the teamsters to go through the lines. Student foremen and nonstriking supervisors worked 14 hours on the skeleton supervisory force. Some F.A.A. members of the 3,800 who had walked out went tack to work. Help also came from U.A.W. shop stewards. They knew that U.A.W. members could not afford to be laid off. And Ford had promised to keep running only if production remained high enough to be profitable. When one department fell behind, threatening a shutdown, a shop steward growled: "Look...
...Tack. With the sense of crisis gone, maneuvering in the Senate took a new tack. Senator Bob Taft wanted a tough, omnibus bill he could dump as a single package on Harry Truman's desk. If the President vetoed it, that would be all right with Bob Taft. He knew what he wanted and he was all for putting Harry Truman on the spot. Meanwhile, Democrats moved heaven & earth to have the bill split up, and thus give the President a chance to sit squarely on the fence. Truman could then court labor's support by killing...
...store windows; and signs shouting "Viva Mexico," "Welcome President Aleman," and "Bienvenido Don Miguel" were readied for hanging on lampposts. The Fire Department planned to arch two 100-ft. ladders in an inverted V over the Memorial Bridge, deck them in the red, white and green of Mexico, tack on huge pictures of President Aleman, and hang a giant Mexican flag from the point of the V. Some 18 bands were assigned stations at Washington's National Airport and along Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues...