Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Officers of the University will flood the Philadelphia meeting to bring graduates up to date on present Cambridge affairs. Academic matters will be in the fore, but Alumni will also hear Art Valpey discuss matters of the gridiron at the regular business session of the conference...
According to the HLU, the CIO union is striking for "a 29 cent hourly wage increase in order to bring the wages of the highest-paid third of its workers up to the Bureau of Labor Standards minimum for the urban worker--$66 per week." A packers' counter offer of nine cents has been turned down by the union...
...Actually, the ride went off smoothly until my horse got tired, sat down and rolled over in an icy stream. Apart from the usual stiffness a 52 kilometer ride-on a giant ex-German cavalry horse-can bring on an amateur horsewoman, I seemed O.K. the next day. Then I made a perilous four-hour jeep ride with the American officer-observer, after which I could no longer walk, sit or breathe...
...House Agriculture Committee, a farm-bloc group, tried to avert its imminent detonation by shelving it. But 218 Congressmen signed a petition to bring it to the floor. Last week, when the House thrashed it out, the galleries were jammed tighter than during the debate...
...Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the cement industry's basing point system illegal. It upheld the Federal Trade Commission in its eleven-year-old antitrust suit against the Cement Institute and its 74 member companies. Said the Court: "[The system is] a handy instrument to bring about elimination of any kind of price competition." In fact, said the Court, cementmakers had used the system to suppress competition by 1) boycotts, 2) price cuts (against plants refusing to play ball), 3) identical bids to cement users, and 4) opposition to the building of new plants...