Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ohio's Mahoning Valley, site of several Republic and Youngstown plants, other maneuvers were afoot. Basic strategy of all three steel companies was to sit tight, wait for back-to-work movements to start among such of their workers as were not actively allied with the S. W. 0. C. strike. They counted on aroused public feeling to assure protection for men going back to work. The Youngstown plants were entirely shut down, in charge of company maintenance men. Republic plants were in partial operation. All were in a state of close siege by strikers. Around the Republic plant...
...street car tracks-at the No. 4 gate of Henry Ford's great River Rouge plant. The union had opened its Ford campaign by hiring two vacant bank buildings near the plant, as headquarters. Next step was to print handbills calling for "Unionism not Fordism," demanding a basic $8 six-hour day for workers, better not only than Ford's present $6 eight-hour day, but better than the terms obtained from any other motor company. Third step was to distribute the handbills to the 9,000 River Rouge workmen...
Succeeding the tightening of the admission requirements with a revision of the course of study in the Law School, he faculty committee has accomplished a work of brilliant reform. The telescoping of the basic principles and cases of law into the first two years and the allowing of more flexibility in choice of subjects to third-year students are two new policies that will show the individual at an early date the various fields of specialization open to him and give the opportunity for original work in one particular field. Each man will be encouraged to select a course containing...
Between 1865, the year after he married Laura Spelman, a Cleveland schoolteacher, and 1872, he evolved and put into prompt practice the basic principle on which Standard Oil achieved its power- buy out competitors at pistol point or destroy them if they refuse to sell. Monopoly of oil was his objective almost from the start. The pistol he used was the secret rebate, the notorious device by which a shipper got a refund on his railroad freight, enabling him to undersell competitors. Rockefeller carried this one step further by bludgeoning the railroads into giving him not only a rebate...
This grant is one of thirteen awarded to men and women under 35 years old who have the degree of Ph.D. Basic stipends of $1,800 to $2,500 and travelling expenses are attached to them for research training fellowships...