Word: actually
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German war seemed nearer, labor began to put forward more & more demands that the Little Steel formula be junked. The unions contended that even now the formula's pegging of wages on the basis of a 15% rise in the cost of living was ridiculous; that the "actual" living cost had rocketed 45% since January 1941. (The Bureau of Labor Statistics insists that living costs have gone up only 24%.) After the war, the unions fear they will lose the special wartime conditions that fattened pay envelopes : overtime, upgrading and night-shift premiums...
...order meant little actual relief for the U.S. The restrictions had been a WPB effort to prevent rationing by making shoes less attractive. In lifting the restrictions, WPB's motive is to protect dealers by giving them fresh merchandise so they will not be caught with shelves full of drab wartime shoes when rationing ends...
Coach Lamar has announced that he will soon cut his "A" squad to 33 men, forming the rest into an entirely separate "B" team. The seconds will play three games, like the Varsity, so that everyone coming out for football practice will have a chance to play in actual competition...
...intent of some of the moves was clear only to such actual players as Stalin, Hitler, Churchill, Pope Pius XII. But two situations on the great board were of far-reaching importance: 1) the developing internal crisis of Germany (see below) which might change the course of the whole game and lead to new, startling combinations of power politics; 2) the meeting in Rome of one of Europe's shrewdest chess players (Marshal Tito) and Britain's outstanding political-landscape painter (Winston Churchill). The meeting might be the opening gambit in new plays for power in Italy...
Appointments were handled by Mrs. Bonn, who arranged with the Cambridge Center Red Cross Motor Corps for transporting the men to the Boston Red Cross Blood Bank, where the actual donations took place. Groups as large as 50 gave blood at one time...