Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Mary Gilson entered industry, unionization was not far advanced in this country. Her achievement in Cleveland was in the "company union" tradition. In effect, she was the union leader and the management representative rolled into one. But as the years progressed, she proved that her mind was cast in no set mold. As unions gradually gained strength, she came to see in them the hope of labor, and recognized that her kind of work could now be carried on more effectively in cooperation with them. But for the future, the lessons she learned at Cleveland will always hold good...
Written by William Gillette, the man who made Sherlock Holmes a stage personality, the comedy includes two cases of mistaken identify revolving around three love affairs. Since the time of the play is about 1900, the cast will be fully costumed. The scenery is being designed by Ted Werch...
...Congress as Congress was anxious to leave was Capitol Architect David Lynn. Since 1938, Architect Lynn has been expecting the Capitol roofs to fall in. The 120-ton ceiling over the House, the 90-ton ceiling over the Senate, constructed of ornamental glass and wrought iron, hang from cast-iron trusses. Tests have shown that some of the trusses have shifted as much as an inch and a half under the stress of snows, winds, years...
...National Labor Relations Board has been stalled since last August, when Chairman J. Warren Madden 's term expired. The remaining Board members, William Leiserson and Edwin S. Smith, in almost continuous disagreement, dead locked. Without Madden to cast the deciding vote, work of the Board practically ceased...
...grow up. Slowly, painfully, the town spread out, cleaned up. Bursting with faith in the city, T. C. I. spent $29,000,000 on expansion in 1936, has spent more millions since. Today, Birmingham has a score of skyscrapers, a church for every 700 citizens, a 53-foot cast-iron statue of Vulcan (atop a WPA-built, 120-foot pedestal) in Red Mountain Park...