Word: brought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From a snarl of crafts and nationalities, from a rank & file in which women (considered unreliable by organized labor) outnumber men three to one, it has built one of the nation's strongest industrial unions. From chaotic conditions, where there was a strike with every season, it has brought order. It has had no major strike in 15 years...
...from the streets; gasoline is $3 U.S. a gallon. In Shanghai's curio bazaar, where foreign visitors used to throng, merchants slump disconsolately beside their stalls or aimlessly play Chinese checkers. In once-thriving jewelry stores on Nanking Road, where intricately wrought gold ornaments and glistening jade once brought handsome prices, merchants have turned to selling soap, DDT, medicines, towels and underwear. Of 136 factories that formerly made headily scented cosmetics, only 30 are in operation, and they are engaged exclusively in manufacturing toothpaste...
...time did [the Steelworkers] actually intend to come to an agreement with [Inland]. We were but an insignificant part in the . . . global strategy by which the establishment of this board was to be forced upon the Government. The wage demand which was presented to you gentlemen was never brought to our bargaining table ... It was pensions the union asked . . . We made an offer . . . We were confident that our employees liked that offer, but . . . the union required that it be rejected...
When he found that the slaughter of the chickens left feet, heads and entrails, Schnering brought in mink which thrive on chicken waste; he now has 400 breeding mink on his farm. One day Schnering decided to put the gushing springs on his farm to work. He built a ¼-mile-long trout hatchery, last year sold 60,000 trout to hotels and restaurants for an average...
...Chrysler sedan for $2,300. An auction of a large part of the loot (a living room suite, three rugs, a TV set, "$1,000 worth" of books, bedroom furniture, a diamond ring, wrist watch and assorted luggage), all of which was valued at nearly $9,000, brought in about $3,000. The syndicate would also be well-clad for a while: a Chicago tailoring firm had agreed to make up $1,000 worth of men's & women's suits for any & all of them, with no time limit on when they had to collect. Another...