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After a thorough and exhaustive search of various Bibles, Bible dictionaries, abridged and unabridged dictionaries, the works of Josephus, The Bible Concordance, etc., I found that Goliath could have been anywhere between 6 ft. 6 in. and 11 ft. 4½ in. tall. His brass breastplate weighed between 156 and 312 lb. His iron spear tip weighed about...
Such a service need not require much money. There is no necessity for brass-buttoned uniforms and visor-caps. The nucleus of guides is still present, it needs little more than a glance of official approval to come to life again...
...worked first as a bugle boy in an army camp down in Louisiana. "The boys came runnin' fast for eats when I let go on that mess call." And now his trumpets ("Lil' Satchel-mouth") don't last up long under Louis' lung power. The intricate instrument of shining brass he plays today he's had only since 1933, and he's already ordered a new one made...
...union made no attempt to prove it in the one way possible: by appealing to the National Labor Relations Board which would order an election. Making peace as well as making war was part of John L. Lewis' strategy. In Detroit a 24-day strike of Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corp., makers of parts for Ford and others, was settled with an agreement to boost minimum wages from 50^ to 65^ an hour. In Pittsburgh the gS-day strike of Pittsburgh Plate Glass workers was settled with an agreement to boost wages 8/ an hour, establish a minimum wage...
...defendants were accused, in the opening speech delivered by Chief Assistant Herlands, of having operated a Manhattan restaurant racket along strictly conventional lines. Their Association charged a $250 initiation fee, $5 per month dues. Its terrorized members-in-cluding such famed restaurants as The Hollywood, Lindy's, Brass Rail, St. Regis and Jack Dempsey's-were additionally shaken down for whatever they were worth. One chain paid $17,000. Jack Dempsey got off with $285, possibly because he gave the Association prestige by posing before newscameras with two of its operators. Profits from the racket were...