Word: toughness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Aging Ed Kelly still clung to Chicago's top political spot. The deal left him the city patronage. But shrewd, suave Jake Arvey will run everything else. A new era had quietly begun in Chicago's tough, corrupt politics. Not necessarily a better...
...wheat was equally spectacular. Cash wheat in Chicago, at $2.18¼ a bu., up from $1.97, was the highest since 1920. Even with the bumper crops expected this year, most grain traders think that wheat will stay up there because of the world demand. Moreover, farmers were having a tough time getting their grain to market. The shortage of railroad cars had forced many of them to pile it up in the open fields alongside the tracks (see cut). At week's end, drenching rains had spoiled half the grain stored in some fields...
...wage raises will cost studios about $20 million over their 1941 annual average. Much of it can come from swollen box-office receipts, although some studios are in for tough sledding if this falls off. But Herbert Sorrell isn't worried about that. Said he chestily: "From now on, we dictate...
Like the burly hero of a Grade-B Western, A.F.L. Union Boss Herbert Knott Sorrell took on ten of Hollywood's major studios last week, and won out. In a two-day strike, the 7,000 "off-production"* workers of Sorrell's young, tough Conference of Studio Unions won every wage-&-hour demand, including a 25% increase in base pay. For the first time in Hollywood history, studios will guarantee their off-production workers, by far the biggest part of their staffs, a work week. This meant that any time these employes are called to work they must...
This was just what studios feared. Rough and tough, Sorrell is little liked by rival studio labor leaders. Neither do they like what they think are his politics. He is now being tried before a union tribunal on charges of Communism. Nevertheless, his quickie victory had greatly increased his prestige. Not since Racketeer Willie Bioff had any labor boss been able to dictate to the studios. The way he was going, using union unity instead of extortion, Sorrell might...