Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is no getting around it; someone has fallen down on the job. In 1725 we voted to give the steward four pounds a year to keep the clock in order, but he hasn't kept his end of the bargain for five generations. Inasmuch as this steward has proved unreliable, it is high time we got one who will really earn his four pounds. There is no limit to the bad effects of a precedent like this, and it mustn't be allowed to go on too long. If something happened to the Memorial Hall clock, would we just...
...Ford was edging. Said his hardfisted, right-hand man, Harry Bennett: "If the NLRB orders an election, of course we will hold one, because Mr. Ford will observe the law. C. I. O. will win it, of course, because it always wins these farcical elections, and we will bargain with it because the law says so. We will bargain until Hell freezes over, but they won't get anything." There was small hope that a respite proclaimed by Michigan's Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner would accomplish anything. Governor Van Wagoner last week invoked a State law, declared...
They believe that peace will bring them ecomonic recovery, no matter who wins the war. If Britain wins, they can return to their place in the Anglo-U. S. world order. If Germany wins, they can bargain for concessions from both the U. S. and Totalitaria. And so, as long as the issue of the war is in doubt, they hesitate to put all their eggs in the Anglo-U. S. basket...
...tale Ben knocks the women over like duckpins and rather enjoys saying so) and becomes something of a chieftain. By the time he leaves, he has picked up pearls which, in London, net him all the King's Pardoning he needs, and thousands of pounds sterling into the bargain. The ending is technically happy but, like the treatment throughout, perceptibly tougher and more intelligent than such stories generally bother to be. Indeed Benjamin Blake turns out to be not merely an engaging adventure piece but an articulate tract against feudalism, both sexual and social...
...Perry reported his position by radio, got the Atlanta weather from the tower. It was no bargain. The cloud base was only 300 feet off the ground and even this ceiling was variable. Standing on the ground, a man could see only one mile; beyond that range, drizzling rain and thin fog blotted out lights. Had the weather been a jot worse-it was down to CAA minimum-Jim Perry would have had to land somewhere else...