Word: coding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rica, where United Fruit donated land for labor colonies, Communist-controlled unions named one of the settlements "Colonia Hamer," after the company's Costa Rican manager. Judicious wage increases have also spared United Fruit some labor headaches, but they may not save it from the projected new labor code's provisions for social security, hospitalization at company expense, and overtime pay, which are expected to cost the company a million dollars a year...
...committee had touched on a political incident (the Dewey letters). It had given away some military secrets (the code-breaking "Magic"). But more than anything else, it had disclosed the improvisations of U.S. foreign policy and how ill prepared the Army & Navy had been to back up the strong talk of the State Department. (Said Frank Knox to Admiral Richardson: "We have never been ready but we have always won.") Where liaison did exist between departments, it had been almost by accident. Army, Navy, State and White House had gone their various wayward ways, until the climax of mistakes...
...Secret. In New London, Conn., a woman shopper unwittingly uttered the code word "Uranium," was handed butter by a furtive grocery clerk, was too flabbergasted to accept...
...year's end the labor code had been in operation 21 months. Its provisions had been invoked in some 2,000 labor-management disputes. All but 278 of them were settled by management and labor without outside help. Conciliators settled 82 of the 278. Conciliation boards settled 64 more, and some disputes are still in the conciliation stage. Only 37 cases ended in failure, and in only eight did the workers actually walk...
Last week the N.E.A.'s ethics committee met in Washington, offered Johnson a chance to testify (which he refused). Then, for the first time in its 76-year history, the N.E.A. solemnly fired a member for "flagrant violations" of its code. Said Kelly's Johnson: "I'm glad they've had their little Roman holiday...