Word: wrecker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better book around an up-to-the-minute brand of millionaire. Cash McCall is a jut-jawed dynamo who buys depressed companies cheap, jacks them up into profitable operation and sells them dear. Men who do not know him hate him and call him nasty names, e.g., "operator," "raider," "wrecker...
...next?" whispers the professor to his assistant at the scientific meeting at Rostov. Before the meeting ends, the professor himself is called out of the hall and arrested by the secret police. A promising young colleague is torn from his career and family, charged with being a "wrecker." Another goes mad, paints himself with red ink in the laboratory courtyard, in the belief that it will make him immune from arrest. The author of One Man in His Time, who used to inform against his colleagues as a "duty,'' recounts the stories with relish. "Every...
EVERY day," said bombastic John L. Lewis, "I have a matutinal indisposition that emanates from the nauseous effluvia of that oppressive slave statute." Lewis was, of course, referring to the Taft-Hartley Act, which other labor leaders have more simply branded a union-wrecker. Just as the Wagner Act was passed at a time when business was in disrepute, so Taft-Hartley was passed as a result of the excesses of organized labor. But Co-Author Bob Taft thought the act far from perfect, later suggested more than a dozen amendments. Last year congressional committees took 7,000 pages...
Within 15 minutes the wrecker had the Reo towed away. To extricate it, the owner made a trip down to police headquarters for a claim ticket, then, with five dollars "to cover towing charges" he asked the garage for the vehicle...
...drive away. The car's gears were locked in reverse when the wrecker arrived. The truck driver tried to yank the gears into neutral, but couldn't, so he towed the car forward with gears locked. The drive cost the owner five dollars plus a now transmission...