Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Workers (as well as management) must bargain collectively. (Under the Wagner Act workers can now bargain or not, as they like...
Hammond's diary was edited by Amherst's English Professor George F. Whicker, biographer of Emily Dickinson (This Was a Poet). Writes he: ". . . We are prone to belittle what colleges [before the Civil War] were contributing [and to] think complacently of the bargain-counter curriculum currently spread before the freshmen's fastidious eyes. [But it is wrong to conclude] that education took place apart from and even in spite of the college.. , . The student of the 18405 . . . was going to college with an earnestness that his successors might well envy. He was not dabbling...
...early Greeks death was simply an unavoidable calamity. The dead Achilles warned Odysseus that it was better to be a beggar on earth than a king in Hades. Later their philosophers tried to reason with death and strike a bargain they could make the best of: "There is either annihilation or immortality," said Socrates. "Either is well...
...enough to consider the stars. They must be, he decided, "anew observed, examined and corrected, for the use of his seamen." Forthwith he commanded "our trusty and well-beloved Sir Christopher Wren, Knight" to build "a small observatory within our park at Greenwich . . . with all convenient speed." Those were bargain days. Sir Christopher tore down a gatehouse in the Tower of London and a fort at Tilbury. With the salvaged stone and timber, and with ?520 from the sale of old gunpowder, he ran up a building on a grassy bank of the Thames, well out in the country where...
Before signing a five-year lease, Murray drove a hard bargain: it can break its lease without obligation in the event of labor trouble. Mike Demech, youthful (36), politically-minded (Republican) head of U.A.W.'s Local 18, went along, promptly signed a contract with Murray. In return, Murray will spend $1,500,000 on reconversion, eventually employ 4,000, boost Scranton's income by $8,000,000 a year. For a ghost town, Scranton looked like a pretty lively ghost...