Word: wind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where Will We Wind Up? On the House side, Republicans were still trying groggily to get on their feet. They heard that Speaker Sam Rayburn, more confident than a lot of others, hoped to have a bill repealing the Taft-Hartley act on the floor by March 1, and would try to give Harry Truman just about everything else he wanted-with the possible exception of the whole $4 billion in new taxes. With tears actually running down his face, one angry and frustrated G.O.P. leader said: "I can't imagine what Sam Rayburn and John McCormack [majority leader...
...attacks its victims most frequently in the spring and fall. He thinks he has found one of the answers in pollen from grass and trees in the spring, from ragweed in the fall. Pollen, he says, can be the trigger that sets off a series of reactions that wind up as a pain in the big toe; it may be pollen by itself, or in combination with certain foods, plain or fancy, to which certain people are sensitive...
...Wind Up? Things looked so bad for Waltham last spring that President Guild-en bowed out in favor of 42-year-old Paul P. Johnson, who had been hired as general manager. But Waltham needed more than new blood; it also needed new money, and it already owed Boston banks $4,000,000. Unable to get the cash, it went into receivership...
Died. Victor Fleming, 60, top-drawer Hollywood director (Joan of Arc); of a heart attack; near Cottonwood, Ariz. Fleming made his reputation directing Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow (Test Pilot, Captains Courageous, Bombshell), won a 1939 Oscar for Gone With the Wind...
...York 35 pound shotput record by over a foot. His 57 foot 9 1/2 inch heave, only 10 inches short of the world's record, helped the New York Athletic Club into fourth place Saturday afternoon in the senior New York Metropolitan track championships on Columbia's wind-swept South Field...