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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occasionally John L.'s phone would jangle with news of another victory. Big John would dictate to a press aide a curt communique which concluded with a half-hopeful, half-commanding "More tonnage will sign." The press covered U.M.W. like a military HQ. Almost every night last week, U.M.W. was able to report to the newsmen that another company or two had agreed to boost pay (from $14.05 to $15 a day) and increase royalties for the miners' welfare fund (from 20? to 35? a ton). Lewis, unable to beat the ganged-up might of coal-industry leaders...
Undeterred by the fact that industry-particularly breweries, laundries and power plants-gulped up almost half the city's water and that one leaking toilet could waste a million gallons a year, the patriotic launched dozens of odd water-saving schemes. Restaurants quit volunteering water with meals; citizens had to ask bravely for it or do without. A New Rochelle teacher forbade her pupils to paint with watercolors. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals turned off its 38 horse-watering troughs. Neighborhood snoops began gossiping about drips, instead of drunks...
...Arab side, the Old City still looks much as it appeared to Godfrey de Bouillon, "Defender of the Holy Sepulcher," when he marched in with the First Crusaders almost 900 years ago. The Holy Sepulcher still stands, though in altered form. Everything around it has remained intact, including the Via Dolorosa along which Jesus climbed to Calvary...
Opposing these agencies are well-organized and financed Communist parties in almost every one of the Western countries. These parties, especially strong in France and Italy, are tightly organized on a ward-boss level; their newspapers have huge circulations. And so far, as the ECA poll shows, they have been winning the propaganda war with very little trouble...
Competition between the Crimson and BU should be keen in almost all events and especially in the 600 yard run, the 1/4-mile run, the broad jump, and the 35 pound weight throw...