Word: won
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...closest match of the afternoon was between Leo Ackerman and Jim Shattuck of Tufts. Ackerman had the edge at first, but Shattuck picked up toward the end, and won by a referee's decision...
Businessmen were alarmed by labor's successful strike at Vultee Aircraft Corp., where workers had won a higher wage; by State Supreme Court decisions upholding the legality of a closed-shop contract. From their annual convention at Fresno, bigwigs of the Associated Farmers of California, Inc. scurried to Los Angeles to huddle with members of the State Chamber of Commerce, the San Francisco Employers' Association, the Merchants' & Manufacturers' Association. There they discussed ways & means of nullifying the Supreme Court decisions...
Thwarted Gangster Nitti, said McLane, thereupon took over the Chicago local, ousted McLane from his job as business agent. Nitti's aides told McLane: "We are taking over. . . . You won't do anything we want you to do and we are taking over. . . . You got to go away." McLane went. In this simple manner, said he, Nitti gangsters had taken over Chicago waiters, hotel clerks, hat-check girls, cooks, soda jerkers, organized the "Local Joint Board & Council of Chicago," and obliged all union members to pay tribute...
...immense sum in real money (total: $735,000,000). But it is a lot to a poor country where a soldier's wife gets only 1.20 lire (five cents) per day allowance and bread costs 1.50 lire a pound. General Papagos and the Greeks had not yet won a war, but they had put Mussolini in a difficult spot...
...members of the cactus family, were taken to Australia in the 19th Century, planted for hedges and as a source of fodder. By 1925 they threatened to crowd out native vegetation on 30,000,000 acres of land, and on 30,000,000 more acres the pears had completely won, standing in a dense, solid growth two to five feet thick. The cost of fighting them with chemicals, by digging or plowing, stacking and burning, would have been more than the land was worth. So, year after year, more land was abandoned, more homesteads deserted...