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Each side knew that it might be catching a tartar. The Big Three are among the biggest and richest employers of U.S. labor. The Auto Workers, with 609,000 dues-paying members and a $4,000,000 strike fund, are one of the biggest and scrappiest of all U.S. unions. In the fight between two such giants, nobody could be sure which-if either-would...
...fight to keep reconversion prices close to 1942 levels, OPA Boss Chester Bowles last week caught a tartar and found a potent ally. The tartar was sandy-haired, aggressive Edward N. Hurley Jr., board chairman of Chicago's Electric Household Utilities Corp. (Thor washers and ironers...
...hoped would last until 1947, the Alliance offered a "simple" prescription to those who want to break themselves of the filthy habit: i) chew 5? worth of gentian root (or camomile blossoms) every time the craving strikes; 2) take ½ teaspoonful each of Rochelle salts and cream of tartar before breakfast; 3) cut out highly seasoned foods and stimulating drinks; 4) shun all smokers and smoke-filled rooms; 5) take Turkish baths; 6) think of something else. But U.S. cigaret smokers, finding gentian root even more awkward to buy than fags, went right on smoking Strange Fruit, or whatever they...
...campaign expenditures pried into Sidney Hillman's P.A.C. last week, searching for some legal misstep which would give the committee a chance to crack down hard. But after diligent search through the woodpile, all they found was Sidney Hillman. And in him, they discovered, they had caught a Tartar. His political footwork made most of them look like stumblebums...
...Passes. The two passes at whose entrances the Russians stood - the Jablonica and Tartar Passes southwestward into Czechoslovakia - are not so rugged and impregnable as some of the territory around Cassino, for example. The passes rise only to about 3,000 ft., above wan dering valleys. The mountains are rolling rather than precipitous...