Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Technically, what Harry Bridges' I.L.W.U. and the seven stevedoring companies were fighting over was a simple matter of dollars & cents. The stevedores wanted a pay boost of 32? an hour to $1.72, which they said would bring their wages closer to those paid on the mainland (West Coast longshoremen now earn $1.82 an hour). Management had offered, and then withdrawn, a raise of 12? an hour, refused to arbitrate. Harry Bridges' noisy West Coast mouthpieces,* sent to Hawaii for the negotiations, argued that a refusal to arbitrate proved that Hawaii's business interests were out to push...
...warned that wage demands could force employers into bankruptcy. Said A.F.L.: "Competition is back; prices can no longer be raised indiscriminately to cover higher costs. Business executives show new interest in cutting expenses. Production per man-hour is now rising sharply. These are all healthy developments which can bring business to its normal postwar balance...
...farmers of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, who had just begun to harvest the biggest cotton crop in their history, reckoned that the new canal would bring them 1) cheaper freight for their products, 2) lower prices for the steel and other materials they need for plants to process and can seafood and the valley's produce. Three new plants worth about $65 million were already abuilding in Brownsville, partly in expectation of the boom...
...fleet. Their task was to hit Allied shipping and run. In foul weather, the Bismarck and her cruiser escort slipped out of Grimstad Fiord before British bombers could be put to work on them. Admiral Sir John Tovey, commander of the Home Fleet, ordered every available ship deployed to bring them to battle. Then, on the evening of May 23, as the cruiser Suffolk hugged the mist between Iceland and Greenland, Able Seaman Newell let out a hail from, starboard. There, 14,000 yards away, were the Bismarck and the Prinz Eugen. The Suffolk ducked back into...
...thing Author Grenfell makes painfully plain: the Bismarck was a huskier fighting ship than anything Britain had built. To bring her down had taken eight battleships and battle cruisers, two aircraft carriers, four heavy cruisers, seven light cruisers, 21 destroyers, six submarines and numerous shore-based aircraft. Captain Grenfell's account of The Bismarck Episode seemingly leaves the British Admiralty with some explaining to do about the quality of its ship construction and tactics. And while it is highly unlikely that war vessels of the traditional battleship type will ever again be built-at least...