Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week, while a cold wave gripped most of the U. S., Miami Beach and the rest of resort Florida was in full hothouse bloom, all figures indicating the biggest, giddiest season since Depression. Train and plane reservations were being booked two to four weeks in advance; 100% bet ter business over Christmas than in 1938 was reported by Seaboard Air Line Rail way; bus travel was up at least 25%; $3,000,000 more real estate had been sold in 1939 than in 1938 in Miami Beach, where sites were priced at from $800 to $1,000 a front...
...people always like to think that they, their Army and their Navy would never fight away from their seabound mainland. "The Atlantic and the Pacific are of tremendous value to our defensive situation, but they are not impassable," observed George Marshall in a piece published last week. In such impassable equivocations, he and the Navy's "Betty" Stark must deal. Otherwise that peaceful ostrich, the U. S. Citizenry, might suspect that its hired fighting men are doing their bounden duty by preparing to fight anywhere on earth...
Ended last week was a labor strike which had kept the port of San Francisco closed for 54 days. Exporters, importers, custom brokers, shipping lines picked up business where they dropped it last Nov. 10. Back to work went longshoremen, teamsters, the 1,300 waterfront clerks whose union started the whole futile mess by demanding that only C.I.O. clerks be hired. In a note to their editor, reporters and copy boys on the San Francisco News voiced the general sentiment of San Francisco: "PLEASE, BOSS, LET'S NOT HAVE ANOTHER STRIKE FOR A LONG, LONG TIME." Settlement...
...Governor Olson called on 31-year-old brassy Mr. Smith after all others had failed. Paul Smith for once kept himself in the background, negotiated quietly with able, chubby President Francis Patrick Foisie of the Dock Checkers Employers Association, then with C.I.O.'s Bridges, who by last week was looking for a face-saving way out. What Paul Smith sold both sides was the proposition that everybody go back to work, let arbitration settle the controversy. So simple was this solution that San Franciscans wondered for the umpteenth time why Messrs. Foisie and Bridges had not agreed...
...three years ago. Last year Mr. Eroe upset his Democratic colleagues, who were evenly matched with Senate Republicans, by casting the deciding vote for a G. O. P. presiding officer. Then he upset the Republicans by switching back to the Democrats, voting with his party on lesser matters. Last week Senator Eroe was upset himself. Out came news that he had: 1) lost his job as a salesman for American Cyanamid & Chemical Corp. which sold dynamite to the State Highways Department last year; 2) already collected and presumably spent his $2,500 salary for the remainder of his Senate term...