Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wage negotiations in the auto industry demonstrated the basic tensions between 1945 management and 1945 labor. Union leaders-some out of sincere economic conviction, some to court popularity with the rank & file-contended that the postwar U.S. must pay its workers more money for less work to keep up purchasing power, spread the job around, create full employment...
...responsible scientists objected to the basic purpose of the May-Johnson bill. Virtually all of them agreed that atomic energy was a frightful force which might, in improper hands, destroy the human race. But they hoped that Congress would be careful. Said one: "Scientific research is like a porcelain egg. Clutch it too tightly, it shatters - and you have nothing...
...Benes well knows, revolutions are never as simple as that. Synthesized or not, they pose the basic question: is the state to be the master or the servant of the people? And if the state is king, can the citizen be free? A lifelong democrat, Eduard Benes would probably answer such questions with another: what if, as in Britain and now in Czechoslovakia, free men choose to limit their freedom...
Wangling some films of the Bears-Redskins game, Greasy studied them until he knew the basic T theme by heart. Finding the right players was the urgent next job. The best source was the annual college draft, and Greasy came to the December meeting loaded with facts & figures. From detailed reports supplied by four strategically located college coaches, plus voluminous newspaper clippings, Greasy had compiled-at a cost of $8,000-a set of 64 books of data. He wheeled them into the draft meeting and went to work...
...basic economy of the Islands, still largely controlled by the U.S. Army, was still very sick. Little had been done to solve the Islands' biggest problems: 1) shattered transportation lines; 2) the lack of money to rebuild homes and industry...