Word: checked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their Zanesville newspaper monopoly go without a struggle. Publisher of the News is Clark Beach, who retired as executive editor of the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette in 1936, was coaxed back to work by Earl Jones. Clark Beach had signed a contract form with a United Pressagent, given him a check for several weeks' service in advance. But the contract was still to be accepted by U. P.'s Manhattan office when the Litticks stepped in and bought U. P. service for themselves...
Reporters scurrying to check up found that current U. S. diplomacy looked good in Finland and Russia. Thin, hardheaded, 47-year-old Ambassador Steinhardt in Moscow got a reputation for keenness as a lawyer, a trade expert, a ballyhoo-proof prophet of the 1929 crash, long before he won a diplomatic reputation in South America. Genial, portly Arthur Schoenfeld in Helsinki, a diplomatic trouble shooter, was sent to Finland two and a half years...
...battle began at Chrysler Corp.'s Dodge plant in Hamtramck, a Detroit suburb noted for its putrescent politics and its high proportion (90%) of Polish-Americans. As 1940 Dodges took shape on the assembly lines, company inspectors time & again had to halt the production flow to check up on botched work, missing parts. Harassed Dodge bosses were up against a new flowering of an old technique-the slowdown. After Dodge fired 64 union sloths, then refused to reinstate them, every second unit slid untouched past key workers. Union girls refused to touch De Soto arm rests on a parts...
...pound, experienced Penn line is expected to check any sustained Crimson marches. So Torbie will be called upon to elude the Red and Blue defense by pass or long run for the margin of victory...
...most specific fault History I finds with commercial tutoring notes is "the general failure to keep abreast of the changes in the reading of the course." In order to check up on whether students are taking adequate notes this year, the course has required its students to hand in their notes for examination and marking...