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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coasting. Aside from the candidates, there were other questions. Ex-National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, apparently with his thoughts on the take-it-easy school of Republicans headed by Massachusetts' Joe Martin, wrote recently in Liberty: "It's time ... to abandon a strategy based upon such thoughts as 'We can coast along and win.' 'The Democrats are hopelessly split,' or 'Give them enough rope and they will hang themselves.' We have been coasting-but generally downhill. The Democrats are always split-until election...
...move, described by Dean Buck as "temporary," is the University's attempt to alleviate the difficult problem of dining for graduate students. "This venture is frankly an experimental one," he declared. "If the patronage is not sufficient to justify keeping the Union open, we will have to abandon the scheme." Furthermore since plans have already been made to return the Union in the fall of 1946 to its pre-war status as center of Freshman activities, the University will not be able to continue this service beyond the spring term, Dean Buck declared...
Maintenance workers walked out of American Airlines hangars, set up picket lines, had a brief clash with police, soon were joined by sympathy strikers in the American Airlines shops in Chicago and Detroit. For a full day American Airlines had to abandon its 24 flights in & out of Chicago and 22 other flights in & out of Detroit...
...most vocal case against subsidies came from Alcoa. I. W. Wilson, Alcoa's white-haired, bespectacled vice president, told a Senate Committee: a calculating, subsidized lessee would "spend money with abandon to capture customers and markets and to create a sales organization which would be useful to him when he purchased the plant, sell below cost, drive Alcoa . . . to the wall, and capture customers for later use. The more he spent during the period of the lease, the better. The Reconstruction Finance Corp. pays the bills...
...stage is blacked out and a voice blares over a microphone a garbled account of the battle closing with cries of "Abandon ship!" interspersed with sounds of seawater burbling into the hold...