Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winner? Whether due to the Act or to a more moderate attitude on the part of labor, the fact was that management came off better in the third round than it had in the first two. Unions generally ended up accepting just about what management had offered in the first place (average increase: 5% an hour). The average weekly wage rose about 6% during the year to about $54.65 (see chart...
...first-termers from across the Charles looked like competition in only two events--the dive and the 200-yd. freestyle relay, both of which they won. The latter, a thrilling race from start to finish, grew more exciting as the Crimson almost came from behind...
...plants which had been bundled off to the Soviet North. The U. S. found itself in control of almost three--quarters of the country's population, two-thirds engaged in agriculture, mainly rice growing--the rest living in de-industrialized cities, unable to produce at all. The final break came in May, 1948, when the Russians switched off the electricity from the North on which the South was dependent...
Best performances of the afternoon came in the exhibition pole vault and weight throw. In the former, Olympic vaulter A. Richmond (Boo) Morcom beat out Harvard's 1946 IC4A champion Pete Harwood with a hoist of 14 feet. "The barefoot boy from New Hampshire" was invited to come here by Sam Felton, who took time out from his studies at the Business School to heave the 35-pound weight 54 feet, 11 3/4 inches...
...Smith led the Crimson to the halftime climax with eight points. His work on offense coupled with Chip Gannon and Walt McCurdy on defense enabled Harvard to snatch a nine point lead before the denouement came later...