Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wages were not an issue this time. With both congressional labor bills dead-aimed at their right to bargain under the Wagner act, they were scrambling against time for a contract which would give them a dues checkoff, a liberalized retirement plan, the right to speak for non-union foremen as well as F.A.A. members. Ford officials conceded that the strikers might be able to cripple production within a week...
...C.I.O. maritime unions would be able to complete negotiations before their contracts expire June 15. Whitney announced that the five operating brotherhoods, freed from the one-year moratorium on rules changes imposed by President Truman, would start all over again through the time-consuming procedures of the Railway Labor Act...
...such doubts that the U.S. would be overaggressive were much less important than the doubt among Europeans that the U.S. would not act vigorously enough. Britain's Economist summed it up this way: "If raw material resources, industrial capacity, scientific knowledge, productive 'know-how,' skilled labor-if these alone were the ingredients of power, then the United States could take on the rest of the world singlehanded. But . . . they are not all. . . . There must also be the willingness, and the ability, to use economic resources in support of national policy. . . . The Americans' hand is all trumps...
...Billy met Fanny Brice and promptly began his courtship by writing her a vaudeville act. Two years later they were married. Fanny had long been Broadway's No. 1 comedienne; to her flock of friends, Billy was just "Mr. Brice," a noisy little guy who carried drinks and got underfoot. Billy began looking around for an equalizer. In 1930, he decided to become a Broadway producer...
...Spiritual Murder-It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart's choice...