Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Gray is technically right, actually wrong. NLRB does not police contracts as such, but does take cases of violation (under the Wagner Act) if the company's breaking of a contract leads to changes in hours, wages or working conditions not cleared with the union...
...Approved the House's nine-months-to-a-year extension of the Second War Powers Act, but specifically prohibited use of its rationing and allocating powers to enforce price ceilings as a substitute...
Mankind, in general less apocalyptic, scarcely knew what to think or do. Most of them were inclined to accept the bomb stolidly-like an earthquake, an act of God. Few were even yet willing to accept Oswald Spengler's bracing pessimism about the age: "There is no question of prudent retreat or wise renunciation. Only dreamers believe that there is a way out. Optimism is cowardice." But there was a growing sense that the Brothers de Goncourt had been grimly farsighted when they wrote in their Journal...
...court's opinion, the defendants have clearly been violating the Sherman Antitrust Act through a complex system of fixed admission prices, block-booking, pooling arrangements, and franchises. In general, said the court, these practices would have to go; in particular, block-booking would have to give way to the auction setup in which any exhibitor could freely bid for any new films. Moreover, the exhibitor would not have to buy in blocks-i.e., take three bad films to get one good one. But the court felt that forcing the producers to sell their theaters was too drastic...
...over Paraguay in 1940, he has used Benítez Vera's, fascist-minded military clique for a whipping boy: it was to blame for Morínigo's failure to set up some semblance of a democracy. Finally, Benítez Vera had played the strongman act with so much authority that he had been given the boot. Now what...