Word: almost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offer ended negotiations which had been going on for almost 100 days. Reuther happily accepted. By all indications, so would Ford workers when they voted on the proposal. By winning peace, Ford had won a lead in his increasingly competitive industry. By winning the contract, Reuther had gained a weapon to use against Chrysler...
...scrabbly hill country of central Pennsylvania, where coal runs rich to the surface, a man could almost breathe the trouble in the air. Across five counties the peace was broken by Americans fighting Americans...
...three weeks ago (TIME, Sept. 19), both sides had steadfastly refused to yield an inch. During that time, MoPac had lost more than $12 million in revenue. Most of its customers were being taken care of by trucks, buses and competing rail lines. But in Arkansas, 55 factories employing almost 3,500 persons were closed because of the MoPac shutdown; farmers in the Kansas City area reported heavy losses because of lack of transportation for their livestock. Confronted with the certainty of such distress, the MoPac strikers had refused to work through the National Railroad Adjustment Board, which is established...
...speeches began, a wonderful, if temporary, surge of good feeling united the thousands in the hall. Bill Boyle almost wept as he stood listening to the roar of the crowd's applause. Vice President Alben Barkley was inspired to a stirring attack on Republicans. Challenging the G.O.P.'s new campaign slogan, he cried: "Will those people who see in every tree frog a roaring lion, and in every angleworm a spreading adder, please rise and tell us what is statism...
...Equality. After a little more grumbling, the Senate gave in-but not before it had lopped almost a half off the President's proposal, which the House had already approved. Cabinet officers were jumped from $15,000 to $22,500 a year (instead of the $25,000 Harry Truman requested); Presidential Aides Clark Clifford and John Steelman got raises to $20,000; White House Secretaries Charles G. Ross, William D. Hassett and Matt Connelly to $18,000. The under secretaries, assistant secretaries, bureau heads and commissioners who run Washington's alphabetical beehive were raised to $15,000 -approximately...