Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Labor? Big Labor's successful strikes in 1946 had helped to build the pressures which blew the lid off OPA and the ceiling off prices. Government statistics showed that Big Labor's weekly income had more than kept pace with prices since 1941 (see chart below). Big Labor had won these gains at the expense of unorganized workers, old-age pensioners, and professional and white-collar workers...
...Build a Monopoly. Some 18 million dial phones still worked, but that service would last only until there were mechanical breakdowns. Maintenance workers were among the strikers; so were clerical, accounting and plant workers of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s vast Bell Systems. Workers at the subsidiary Western Electric joined the walkout...
...irrelevant" at all reasoning but his own. On his own terms, then, by passing all the powerful "unrealistic" arguments with his policy, we can find a weakness in his plan that makes his whole book little better than a syllogistic tour de force: he believes the American Empire must build absolutely on monopoly control of atomic weapons by this country. Wishfully, he disregards or brands as communist rumors all statements by scientists that the Soviet has or can soon have similar weapons. This refusal to admit a fact invalidates his whole policy. Even on Burnham's amoral grounds, his plan...
...fight the network censors. About these hapless blue-pencilers play the full, fanged lightnings of his wit. "The Molehill Men," he calls them. "A radio censor is a man who comes into his office every morning and finds a molehill on his desk. His job is to build that molehill into a mountain before he goes home." It still gets his sinus in an uproar to recall that during the war he was forbidden to refer slightingly to the Ubangi -because, the censors explained, the Ubangi might be holding captive some U.S. airmen, and take offense...
Present plan call for a different announcer to handle the program each day, so that each man can build up a style of his own. In addition to the jazz featured, some swing numbers will he included...