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Three weeks ago the National Dock Labor Board (representing management and labor) refused to let the dockers go to work on any ship at all unless they unloaded the two Canadian ships. When troops were called in to take the place of the wildcat strikers, they stayed away from the two Canadian ships. Using troops to unload them would have settled the dispute, but the government knew what it was doing...
...strike had begun when dockers refused to unload two ships involved in a Canadian strike. The walkout on British docks persisted and spread. Prime Minister Attlee said the London stoppage was a maneuver in Communist "wrecking tactics." Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross called it "economic and political treason." The government ordered troops to load the ships...
...Heavy Top. M.I.T. suffers from some of the ills of bigness. It cannot quickly unload any of its large blocks of stock (for fear of breaking the market), hence it does not offer investors much chance for quick gains. This fact was spotted by Minneapolis-born Sidney L. Sholley, a statistician and financial analyst who had settled in Boston. In 1932, he organized a new Boston-type trust called Keystone Custodian Funds, Inc., which offered customers as conservative or as speculative a program as they wanted. If their main interest was income they could buy any of four bond funds...
...began in 1924 because Marcus Loew's Eastern theaters needed more films. Neither Loew's own studio, Metro Pictures, nor his friend, Producer Louis B. Mayer, could keep up with the demand. The big chance came when another fledgling named Sam Goldwyn decided to unload his Culver City studio. Loew's Inc. put up $5,000,000 worth of stock for Goldwyn's lot and launched it, under Mayer's supervision, as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...assortment of stuff-sliders, fastballs, curves and change-ups. The Yankees got only one hit off him after the fourth inning, and Feller was still in there pitching at the end. The Indians won, 4-2, with Feller holding the fort until Teammate Vernon, back at first base, could unload a two-run homer in the eleventh inning. Feller's burial, it seemed, would have to be put off for a while; the rest of the Indians felt healthier...