Word: averting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would have been a subsidy from the boom-filled treasury. In his inaugural address to congress, Prío announced that he had persuaded the country's businessmen to cut food prices 10% (thus presumably washing out the need for a wage hike). That might be enough to avert a bus strike, but such economically iffy methods were unlikely to help in settling the biggest labor dispute of all: how much Cuba's 400,000 sugar hands would be paid for harvesting the winter's cane crop...
...Georgia Review: "They are haunted by fear of rape; but though this is mostly envisaged in the crudest physical shape, it is probably a second spiritual violation which they dread even more. Terrified of being overwhelmed by violence, they use violence and the threat of violence to avert this disaster...
...railways, seized by the Government nine weeks ago to avert a strike, were returned last week to private ownership. The three holdout brotherhoods (engineers, firemen, switchmen) agreed, at long last, to the same 15½?-an-hour wage boost which had been accepted some time ago by all the other railroad workers...
...House Agriculture Committee, a farm-bloc group, tried to avert its imminent detonation by shelving it. But 218 Congressmen signed a petition to bring it to the floor. Last week, when the House thrashed it out, the galleries were jammed tighter than during the debate...
...States," he read, "has proposed a temporary United Nations trusteeship for Palestine. . . . Trusteeship is not proposed as a substitute for the partition plan but as an effort to fill the vacuum soon to be created by the termination of the [British] mandate, on May 15. ... If we are to avert tragedy in Palestine, an immediate truce must be reached between the Arabs and Jews. . . . With such a truce and such a trusteeship, a peaceful settlement is yet possible...