Word: actions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reuther swung into action. Telegram after telegram was read to the convention from Ford locals, reporting overwhelming votes in favor of a strike against Ford. Despite the fact that the "news" was weeks old, the delegates roared applause after each reading. When the pitch was right, Reuther asked them to give his executive board authority to levy a special $1-a-week-for-twelve-weeks strike assessment on all employed U.A.W. members. From their seats behind long, banquet-like tables, the delegates shouted approval. It meant a war chest of some $10 million...
...Technician Jessamine Hilliard, West noted that the milk-curdling property of blood varies with the patient's health. He attributed this to the relative strength of two enzyme inhibitors. These two inhibitors are mysterious, complex substances, not yet isolated and still nameless. They serve as policemen, regulating the action of the two enzymes: rennin (found mainly in the stomach) and chymotrypsin (in the pancreas). Both the enzymes are ferments which curdle milk. Their inhibitors circulate in the bloodstream...
...turn this week to a more tangible danger. On the decision of his cabinet, King George VI proclaimed a state of emergency to meet a two-week-old strike on the London docks. Not since the General Strike of 1926 had a British government taken such drastic action in a labor dispute...
Within a Budding Grove. All these arguments are plausible enough, but they cannot hold soup when the pro-beards come into action. Beavered Irishmen, for example, have always insisted that a beard is much handier and more absorbent than a table napkin (Author Reynolds concedes that his source for this is an English historian). Similarly, the 19th Century French Romantics demonstrated beyond doubt that by growing a broad enough beard a man could wear the same shirt collar for months on end. Moreover, as one authority has estimated, a bearded man could learn seven languages in the time spent...
...book, Our Sun (Blakiston; $4.50), Dr. Donald H. Menzel of Harvard tells how new and refined instruments have opened the sun to astronomers' prying eyes. There is plenty of action to watch, for the sun is a vast turmoil of violent storms and convulsions...