Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would April rival January? John L. Lewis, announcing that he wanted a new basic wage agreement, filed a 30-day strike notice on behalf of 400,000 members of the United Mine Workers. Some 300,000 railroad engineers and trainmen, seeking a 25% wage increase, voted overwhelmingly for a nationwide strike against some 130 U.S. railroads...
Pravda spoke in its own esoteric tongue. From the turgid depths of Marxist dialectics it dredged up the basic criterion for Soviet art: "The significance of the ideological and creative evolution of the Moscow Art Theater . . . consists in its recognition of partisanship...
...TIME'S departments, these three have changed the least-perhaps because they exemplify best one of our basic beliefs: that the way to tell the story of the news is in terms of the people who make the news...
...leaders of Rollins have always worked for world peace and for the welfare of our fellow men. We have all been encouraged to work toward these objectives through the altruistic spirit of Rollins. Our Chapel is unique in its application of the basic principles of Christianity. Undenominational in form of worship, it is, with its student services, an integral part...
Gilt & Elbow Grease. However, few Britons will concede that Britain has lost anything of her basic vitality or human potential. The show will go on, as colorfully as possible. Last week Covent Garden, London's Royal Opera House, which jitterbugging G.I.s used as a dance hall during the war, reopened with a gala performance of the Tchaikovsky ballet Sleeping Beauty. The King and Queen, Queen Mary and the Princesses arrived in their gleaming Daimlers. A photographer, kneeling in the crush, tugged at a trousered leg, begged: "Give us a break, will you, George." He was embarrassed when the King...