Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unions representing some 1,000,000 non-operating railroad workers (clerks, shopmen, telegraphers, etc.) demanded a 40-hour, five-day week (instead of a 48-hour, six-day week), a "third-round" 25?-an-hour wage boost, extra pay for Saturdays and Sundays. Negotiations were soon mired in argument. After mid-January the unions had the right to strike. Instead they continued to negotiate...
This week, after one continuous 21-hour session, both sides finally accepted a presidential fact-finding board's judgment. The unions got their 40-hour week and a 7?-an-hour wage boost. They lost their argument for extra pay for Saturdays and Sundays. The settlement would add around $300 million to the cost of running the nation's railroads in 1949, but the board figured that the railroads could afford...
Speaking to American architects in Houston, Tex., Rear Admiral William S. Parsons, Navy director of atomic defense, tore into the argument that men and cities should go underground to escape the terrors of the atomic age. Like an over-armored destroyer, said Parsons, overprotected cities would find themselves "safe" but paralyzed...
...without complete loss of consciousness). There are still 7,000 out of 17,000 practicing British midwives who have had no such training. A bill to require midwives to learn analgesia within four years has been backed by Labor's red-haired Leah Manning. Mrs. Manning's argument: "If some doctors had a labor ward of men to look after, I think it highly probable that for the defense of their sanity they would give their patients something more than a towel and tell them to pull...
...staffers he is something of a mystic, inclined to mull over big plans while he puffs on a pipe or a 10? cigar. Then, with every detail worked out in his mind, he springs his ideas without warning. Sometimes, when crossed in an argument, he will seem to fumble for words, with a disarming, apologetic smile, a brown-eyed stare, and an Oh-gosh stammer. "That's the time to look out," says a man who has been fencing with him for years. "He's never fumbling for ideas; his mind simply outruns his tongue...