Word: averting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late to avert a strike, the President appointed a fact-finding board. Meanwhile the union agreed to accept the 9? offer provided it was retroactive to Jan. 12 and that other demands were arbitrated. The packers turned that down. At week's end, 2,000 C.I.O. pickets plodded around the stockyards, watched by 2,500 Chicago cops. Meat prices jumped up from 3? to 12? in seven days...
...with boosting the endowment fund. But the pain with which the money for the Lamont Library is being extracted from reluctant alumni, as well as the timidity that characterized the War Memorial Committee whenever large sums of money were mentioned, would indicate that the sort of money needed to avert a tuition increase is not easily...
...Pretty" is the appearance of Clifton Webb. He turns up by some mistake as a resident baby-sitter, and in the end he is more or less running the happily married couple and their three little boys. Having harvested something of a general education, Webb is on hand to avert every family disaster in the accepted Jeevesian fashion. Only once does his wisdom and teaching fail: that is when one of the little boys gets a bellyache, and this heartrending dialogue ensues: "Well, why don't you stand on your head like Mr. Belvedere said?" "I did, but I only...
...bushel, payable in hard-to-get U.S. credit. As for the U.S., it had saved next to nothing so far by Charles Luckman's noisy grain conservation plan. The U.S. was still feeding some 90 million tons of grain a year to livestock; a tenth of that would avert next spring's crisis...
...flat, unimpressive, and at times halting phrases, an ex-Senator from Missouri yesterday reported to the Congress of the United States the outlines of the program which he deems "necessary and essential" to avert chaos in Europe and economic disaster at home. It was a sweeping program. It was a daring step...