Word: driver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator from Delaware) sued Byllesby and associates to recover $42,685,409 for the company. To all this, Byllesby filed a defense which relied chiefly on the statute of limitations. A month later, Standard escaped from reorganization, was returned to the common stockholders with Victor Emmanuel now in the driver's seat...
Kollsman is the name of a shy, German-born inventor who studied mechanical engineering at the technical schools of Stuttgart and Munich, in 1923 emigrated to the U. S., found work as a truck driver's assistant, then as a mechanic for Pioneer Instrument Co., a Bendix subsidiary. By 1928 Paul Kollsman had accumulated $500 and started Kollsman Instrument...
...listener, used to hearing four-four tempos from marches and other dance tunes, to remember that tempo; then from the very beginning of the record, the band proceeded to play ahead of this implied beat. Push, push, push, till the record sounds like a pile driver with St. Vitus dance. Drive is the whole object of this style of playing...
Left untouched was the question at keenest issue now: whether labor unions as such may be prosecuted under the Sherman Act.† The Chief Justice said the question was not presented, despite the milkwagon driver defendants. Thus President William Green of the American Federation of Labor found no clue in the Supreme Court decision to the future of his building-trade unions-now widely indicted in the Justice Department's drive against trade restraints in the construction industry...
...Will you please explain to me as a former bus driver, what you mean by 'academic freedom' " the sponsor of the Teachers' Oath law writes. "I am waiting for it so as I can explain it to the rank and file alumni...