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...Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Lincoln, Packard, Hudson, Nash, Cord, Auburn; carburetors for Ford, Nash, General Motors, Hudson, Chrysler, Plymouth, Studebaker; other parts for many another U. S. automobile. Last week Bendix could supply none of these customers. Two U. S. Department of Labor conciliators met with Bendix and union representatives to thrash out the differences, interrupted their week-long conferences only to go to the Notre Dame-Northwestern football game...
...Prauzi, Latvia, Sawley Ivanov, 64, father of 31, appealed to police to protect him from his children when they threatened to thrash him if he married a fourth time...
...years may actually have been due to the philistinism of his times, but in the play it appears mainly due to his idea that the U. S. literary scene consists of Edgar Allan Poe. He invades a party in the famed salon of Anne Lynch in Manhattan, threatens to thrash a man who is slandering his character, starts drinking from the punch bowl instead. His recital of The Raven is interrupted, inevitably, by news of his child wife's death. In 1849 he visits Elmira, then a widow, but his attempt at a reunion fails because she believes...
...training, tradition and conviction Will Clayton is a free trader. Any meddling with the economic machine is, to him, the supreme sin. Before the Bankhead Act] before the AAA crop reduction program, before cotton loans were instituted, before the Hoover Farm Board started to thrash around in the futures markets, Will Clay ton's favorite hate was the tariff. Said he, when ploughing-under was rampant: "There is only one means of preserving a correct balance between supply and demand in a great world commodity like cotton, and that is through the corrective influences of competitive price levels established...
...social, psychological and recreational development. . . . Besides direct effect on muscles, swimming is a superior activity in strengthening the vital functions and organic vigor of the body. The massaging action of the abdominal muscles needed to keep the internal organs in a state of tonus is provided by the leg thrash, which is controlled by muscles originating on the pelvis. Circulation is speeded. The heart, more nearly on a level with all parts of the body, adjusts easily to the extra energy demands. Muscular contractions demand an increased supply of oxygen. The depth and rate of respiration are accelerated. Continued exercise...