Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cash First. Unchecked, the spreading strikes would be one more deadly blow to Britain's determination to keep its place in the world. (Nearly half of the exports on which Britain lives are made by members of the engineering unions.) Both shipyard and engineering employers adamantly refused to offer any wage increase at all. British wages, they declared, had risen twice as much as the cost of living in 1956, were now so high that they threatened to price British exports out of world markets. Just as intransigent, the unions flatly refused to submit their case to arbitration. Said...
...constantly changing. What is the mid-century role of the press? Says Williams: "Not that of a judge but that of a minefield through which authority, great and small, and at every level of policy and administration, must step warily, conscious always that a false step may blow it up. The estate of journalism is a dangerous one. It exists as a force in society to remind all those who govern that systems are made...
Segregation Dealt Blow...
WASHINGTON, March 25--The Supreme Court today dealt a blow to Virginia's policy of "massive resistance" to racial integration in its public Schools...
Douglas' DC-8). That the J57 and J75 had passed with flying colors was fine for Pratt & Whitney. But it was one more blow to the rest of the troubled U.S. air-craft-engine industry. In a few short years, the five well-matched big companies that had competed for the jet market have been narrowed to Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Aircraft Co. Said a top Defense Department official: "It's a short, sad story. Pratt & Whitney has the best engines, and that is what we have got to have...