Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prayer and meditation. But thousands of their fellow citizens carried on as if the first anniversary of the atomic bomb were Rodeo Day in the Texas Panhandle. They jammed movie houses to see special anniversary shows, stampeded in the city's makeshift department stores to take advantage of bargain sales in Hiroshima-made products. The day ended with a bangup ritual lantern dance on the grounds of a Shinto shrine...
Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden had kept his bargain, and now the time...
Last year, New York's bargain-priced City Opera Company broke opera's rigid color line by presenting Todd Duncan of Porgy and Bess fame in Carmen and I Pagliacci (TIME, Oct. 8). and followed it this year with Negro Soprano Camilla Williams as Madame Butterfly. Says 32-year-old Ellabelle Davis: "I want to prove that a Negro artist doesn't have to stay in his own backyard. In a singer, it is the color of the voice and not of the face which matters. If I'm a success...
...board, appointed only a few hours before a pilots' strike deadline at Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. last May, released its recommendations. There was comfort for both sides. The board, which hoped that its recommendations would form a pattern for the airline industry, upheld the pilots' plea to bargain individually with lines. The board also granted 1) an increase in base pay of international route pilots of $750 a year, 2) an increase which could be as much as 30% for copilots, 3) revision of the twelve-year-old overall hour & mileage pay formula. The board also boosted hourly...
Neither pilots nor airlines made up their minds right away whether they would accept the recommendations. Chances were that both would. Chances were also that the airlines would end up by bargaining on an industry-wide basis. They had already designated a committee of airline executives as bargainers. And the board saw no reason why the same committee could not bargain for all airlines, one at a time...