Word: thaws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soft-coal dispute, frozen by John Lewis' gruesome "memorial" strike, melted this week like an April thaw. Lewis' miners, losing millions of dollars in wages and gaining not a thing, had been drifting back. Secretary of the Interior Julius ("Cap") Krug had thrown responsibility for mine safety right back at Lewis himself. Then Lewis' old nemesis, Justice T. Alan Goldsborough, melted the last block...
...Mark is one of the best-liked men in radio, and one of the shrewdest. A near-genius at negotiation, he is often asked to handle the industry's top-level labor relations. Lapped in Mark's sunny smile, even the wintry Petrillo has been known to thaw like any spring...
...land was covered with a two-foot layer of granite-hard ice. There is a tradition that on March 17 Saint Patrick turns "the stone warm side up" to make the soft, drying west wind blow over Ireland. Two days before the Saint's day, a thaw came, but with it a ten-hour fall of rain and sleet. Ireland's rivers boiled in swollen anger, flooding the lush valleys in Meath, Carlow, Athlone, Cork and Wexford. In Kilkenny town the floods were the worst in living memory...
...Floradora Girl Evelyn Nesbit, 61, the 1906 reason why the late Harry K. Thaw (TIME, March 3) shot Stanford White, walked into a windfall. She was airing her Belgian griffon, Hedy LaMarr, on Manhattan's Seventh Avenue, when a casting expert rushed up and offered the beast a trot-on role in the Broadway musical, Street Scene. Salary: $20 a week...
Died. Harry Kendall Thaw, 76, multimillionaire turn-of-the-century playboy whose murder of famed Architect Stanford White over Evelyn Nesbit in 1906 was the granddaddy of all tabloid sensations; of coronary thrombosis; in Miami Beach. Eccentric girl-chaser Thaw put three bullets in White at a Manhattan roof garden for the alleged seduction, before Thaw had married her, of ex-Floradora Girl Evelyn...