Word: threw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came the deadline which Jones & Laughlin's C. I. O. unionists had set when they voted to strike unless the corporation signed a union contract. Marching out of J. & L. plants both in Aliquippa and Pittsburgh, the unionists shut down the nation's fourth largest steel producer, threw 27,000 men out of work, started the biggest U. S. steel strike since 1919. Next day, 6,000 employes of Pittsburgh Steel Co. struck...
...sleepy southern French city of Béziers last week were billed Spain's three ranking matadors: Marcial Lalande, Domingo Ortega, Manolo Bienvenida. But Beziers Aficionados booed, hooted, threw bottles, for Béziers is stalwartly proletarian and the bulls came from a part of Spain held by Rightist General Franco. Not till the manager shouted that bulls' dislike of red is instinctive, not intellectual, did the crowd allow the corrida...
Colonel Wise got started shark-fishing as a boy off the Virginia Capes, when he threw a weakfish out for a big Hammerhead shark and was towed around for miles in his dory. He learned to chum for the brutes with fresh-killed fish, preferably good oily and bloody ones. He learned how to cure a hooked shark of sulking on the bottom: send a lively crab down the line to pinch his nose...
...returned to his room in Leverett House at 3:45 o'clock yesterday morning and opened the door to be met by heavy black smoke. He immediately turned in an alarm, resulting in the arrival of Cambridge's familiar ladder truck and two fire engines. The "smoke eaters" promptly threw an upholstered chair which had been ignited by a cigarette out the window...
...tear out their stage-to-audience runways, gave them six months to restore decency to their performances. The burlesque producers tore out the runways but that was all. Last week, after three patient years, Commissioner Moss made theatrical history when, with one fell swoop, he darkened 14 burlesque houses, threw 2,000 theatrical workers out of work, and at least temporarily ended what is professionally known as "louse opera" in the city where it was born and has flourished rankest...