Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...negotiations with all eight other newspaper unions. (The publishers estimated that an across-the-board increase would cost them $1,000,000 a year for every $1 in pay boosts.) "New York publishers have made their decision," commented the Louisville Courier-Journal. "They are refusing to tie themselves to blanket cost expansion...
Fashion Forecast. In London, Reader "J. B." wrote a letter to the Communist Daily Worker condemning workers for wearing trousers, "those symbols of the inequality of women," declared that under Communism, "not only evening dress but trousers too will disappear ... I am already designing a tasteful blanket suitable for both sexes. It [has] no shape...
...flat 25 dollars given without consideration of past salary or length of employment. Money to pay the benefits would be drawn from the trust fund until it was dray, then obtained by general taxation. But 25 dollars is a ridiculously small amount--hardly enough for subsistence; more important, the blanket extension covering all the aged, destroys one of Social Security's basic principles: you don't get something for nothing, and the more you produce, the more you will receive when you retire...
...meeting of the committee held last Tuesday, the HYRC representative asked the group to endorse Pusey's entire statement, including a section deploring the use of the Fifth Amendment to avoid testifying. But because agreement could not be reached among the member groups of the committee, the blanket endorsement was not given...
...Bubble Blanket. Tiny plastic bubbles that cut evaporation 85% to 90% when floated on crude oil in tanks were put on the market by Bakelite Co. Estimated savings if used by the entire oil industry: $60 million a year...