Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...events of the past fortnight. But the Dixiegop, which looked like a new phenomenon to Wayne Morse and a curious hybrid to C.I.O., had been around in one form or another in dozens of Congresses, and it was a species that died hard. No one knew that better-now -than Fair Dealer Harry Truman...
...were some hard facts of British economic life. They were summarized last week by Sir Stafford Cripps in his "Economy Survey for 1949." The news he had about Britain's great effort toward recovery was as good as anyone had a right to expect; some of it was better...
When the Communists set up low-cost lunch counters in factories, Catholic Action did the same-and tried to serve better food. When Communist women's organizations sent poor children to the country, Catholic Action went to work until its own kids-to-the-country program by far outdid the Reds'. Last year Catholic Action helped send over a million needy youngsters to summer camps...
...also want material advantages for their labor, he said. Labor strikes for steady employment at higher wages, shorter hours, and more comfortable working conditions. The public, Dr. Compton said, wants the quality of goods to go up and the price to go down. Business wants higher profits. People was better housing and better health. Governments, in our expanding civilization, need more tax money...
...Thursday night's performance of Richard Strauss' "Salome" was a very different story, and a very wonderful one. Singers and orchestra combined under Fritz Reiner's direction to give a really superb reading of Strauss' score and incidentally proved that "Salome" is an unusually fine opera which deserves far better treatment than the austere neglect it received until the Met's revival last month...