Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before making its evenhanded report, the board had taken a sweeping view of the whole U.S. economy. It came down from the mount with a warning to both management and labor. It warned industry that it had no right to use up and then discard the human components of its structure. It warned the nation's steelmakers that excessive profits from production should be equitably shared through lower prices. At the same time, it sounded an implicit warning to labor that benefits cannot be won at the expense of industry's good health. In other words, the board...
Because Murray has exercised his power with some wisdom and restraint, the big companies have not been unhappy. But the small companies were. Many complained that union negotiators never came near them, or when they did, carried on only token bargaining; they all had to do what Big Steel did. The union answered that it was a waste of time bargaining with anyone but the industry's handful of top firms, who set the pattern for all. Big & little firms, they were all in the same labor market...
...hours after the 210 top amateur golfers s"et out to decide who would be U.S. champion for 1949, the tournament came to a water-logged stop. Rain beat down on Rochester's Oak Hill course. When play was resumed, it was too dark for Ted Bishop, the 1946 champion, to complete his first-round match-and he bowed early next morning to a Denver schoolteacher named John Kraft...
Ward knew that the wartime textile boom would not last forever. Three years ago he set his research chief, Everett Nutter, to developing a new cloth to meet the hot competition of rayons and tropical worsteds. The shakedown in the textile industry came before Nutter's new fabric was ready. In the first three quarters of Goodall-Sanford's last fiscal year, the company's profits fell 51%; Ward quickly decided on his price-cut to clear out stocks for his new fabric...
...January 1692, Betty and Abigail fell sick. Betty would break into fits of weeping and sometimes make hoarse choking sounds, almost like the barking of a dog. Abigail would run about on all fours, rasping and babbling. The children could not bear to hear prayers, and when Betty came out of one seizure she sobbed that she was damned...