Word: averting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Federal Government has taken over railroads or coal mines to avert strikes, it has often handed out pay raises which the seized companies had previously refused to give. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court whacked down on the Government's habit of handing out other people's money. In a precedent-setting decision, the court held that the Government, not the company, must pay the losses resulting from added wage costs, and thereby laid the Government open to suits for millions of dollars in claims...
...night; Irénée's wife was permanently injured in a blast that killed 36 workmen in 1818; Lammot du Pont, father of the brothers Pierre, Lammot and Irénée, was mortally injured in 1884 while trying to "quench" some fuming nitroglycerin to avert a disaster. *Christiana, which still holds 27% of Du Pont stock, paid $200 a share for Coleman du Pont's stock. Each share of Du Pont common has since risen to a market value (counting splits) of $11,779 and has paid a total of $5,958.91 in dividends...
...Capital in January, one of its first actions was to restore the old delaying powers of the House Rules Committee. To show its appreciation, that committee is now sitting firmly on top of a bill to provide 2,000,000 tons of food grains for India which would help avert widespread famine in that country...
...concerned with the merits of the movie, rather than with Spellman's or anyone else's right to decide whether the board of censors are performing their function. To condemn him for doing so is simply to revert to the intellectual "dictatorship which your editorial is so anxious to avert. John Ziegler...
...were striking not at the railroads but at the U.S. Government, which seized the roads last August and put them under Army control, to avert just such a strike. For 21 months, the union had been pressing for 48 hours' pay for a 40-hour work week (the same increase given a million non-operating employees in 1949), while the railroads' best offer had been 44 hours' pay for 40 hours' work. Now that a wage-price freeze seemed imminent, explained union officers, the workers could wait no longer, and so they had gone...