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Labor, facing the Taft-Hartley Act, reacted swiftly. John Lewis' coal miners struck back with a sweeping wildcat strike through the nation's coal fields. In his cocked fist Lewis held the threat of a full-scale strike. The rest of the A.F.L. and the C.I.O. mobilized in an effort to destroy the new law, by constitutional and more peaceful means, in the courts...
...emphatic "no." Then the singers stop on a temporal dime, and without perceptible damage to the tempo of the rehearsal Woody throws in an anecdote about "Koussie" in a rough approximation of Koussevitzky's English. The atmosphere is always spirited, though not always so gay. When he uses his fist instead of his palm on the desk, everyone sits up and gives the best...
Shooting his club-like fist unerringly, he downed Dowat early in the second for nine, and boring in inexorably, sent his game but bewildered adversary to the canvas with a streaming nose for another nine-count. Referee Tommy Rawson halted the bout...
...from being folded and carried for weeks in his overall pockets. He had grouped them so that even laymen could trace the evolution from first idea to finished masterpiece. A hand from one corner of a large mural might first have been drawn in many ways, now as a fist, then open; first supplicating, then grasping. No one could say of Orozco that he had failed to learn his drawing lessons...
...Exchange-except for one stock. New York Central Railroad, usually as quiet as a tombstone, was the liveliest stock on the Big Board. The shares were steadily rising. How come? It was no secret that the great New York Central, second biggest U.S. railroad, was losing money hand over fist. And earning prospects this year looked anything but bright...