Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Car & Foundry Co.'s big boxcar plant at Madison, Ill. (across the Mississippi from St. Louis), has a base reputation among red-hot unionists, has had many strikes and stoppages. Last week, to the amazement of its C.I.O and A.F. of L. workers, A.C. & F. was accused of pro-union activity. The National Labor Relations Board decided that A. C. & F. had fired a Negro chainman to satisfy employes who refused to work with him because he would not join the A. F. of L. NLRB's ukase to the company: reinstate the man, "cease and desist...
...Communist labor leaders such as David Dubinsky, Walter Reuther. Read all the campaign material issued by both sides in plant elections. Characteristics of CP literature: violence of utterance; unreasonable criticisms; charges that the opposition is fascist; use of such CP jargon as "deviationist," "Lovestoneite," "revisionist," "capitalist contradiction," "dialectic," "mass base...
...money to finance his huge military program. Argentina's military government has not come near balancing its budget since it seized power nearly three years ago. In that time the budget doubled, with military expenditures accounting for nearly half of the total. Peron's schedule for air-base construction alone-most of it along the Brazilian and Paraguayan borders-will cost $250,000,000. Till last week the Central Bank would lend the Government no more than a tenth of its average revenue, or about $25,000,000 a year. Nationalization fixed that...
Giuseppe was a changed man. One day this week, his shoe-button eyes agleam and his squirrel teeth clamped, Giuseppe stepped up to bat. A pitched ball hit him, but he spurned the umpire's offer to take first base. Then he banged out homer No. 14 high over the centerfield fence, 402 ft. away. Everybody was beginning to talk, too, about his superb fielding, running, throwing. Such spring training carryings-on were usually reserved for rambunctious rookies-not the great Giuseppe Paolo ("Joe") Di Maggio of the New York Yankees...
THENARDOL, a new antiseptic for which the base is common household hydrogen peroxide, can be sprayed, inhaled, given to patients allergic to sulfa drugs or penicillin. Developed by Dr. Ethan Allan Brown of Boston, thenardol is super-safe, non-allergy-causing...