Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paralyzing strike had started Oct. 1 over "a matter of principle": Should the steel companies foot the whole bill for employees' pensions and insurance (as proposed by President Truman's fact-finding board), or should the Steelworkers chip in for some of the cost? But as time passed, as distress hit the steel towns and major segments of U.S. industry began to stifle for lack of steel, Phil Murray and Bethlehem decided to get down from abstract principle and talk cents...
...stepped out of it long enough to butter up his old enemy, the A.F.L.'s President William Green as "the able Mr. Green," and to propose that Green and Lewis chip in $2,500,000 a week for the striking steelworkers (Green's A.F.L. was to put up nine-tenths of the money). Last week after he had gotten his answer (a curt no thanks), the mineworkers' president got off another letter to Bill Green...
...seal the grand alliance, Lewis proposed, the U.M.W. and nine affiliates of the A.F.L. should chip in $250,000 a week each to help Murray's 480,000 striking United Steelworkers ward off "a vast and barbaric attack" on their union...
Nothing to Do. "Around midnight, everyone crashes out into the street and runs through the fog and rain looking for something to do. There is nothing to do and the gin wears off and the thing ends in a steamy fish-and-chip shop or over a plate of spaghetti on toast...
...floor of the U.S. Senate last week, two aged, reactionary spoilsmen, both vindictive, determined and ruthless, were waging a joint fight for power. Both, chip by chip, were being whittled down to size. One was 80-year-old Kenneth Douglas McKellar, the choleric Tennessee feudist who heads the all-powerful Appropriations Committee; the other was Nevada's silver-maned, silver-minded Patrick A. McCarran, 73, chairman of the scarcely less powerful Judiciary Committee...