Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three work shifts in their clockless factories, they were marched into the factory yard and forced, rain or shine, to sing company songs and recite such uplifting Buddhist promises as, "Today I will make no immoderate demands" or "Today I will not grumble or complain." Once a week every worker, regardless of religion, is forced to attend a Buddhist religious service. At one rally in the plant several years ago, fire broke out and 23 Ohmi girls were trampled to death. Huddled together in small, crowded dormitories on the factory grounds, girl workers are forbidden to wear lipstick, must...
Missed Point? When G.M. dealers wrote in to complain that the story would hurt their sales, the W.SJ. printed the letters and an editorial: "When a newspaper begins to suppress . . . news, whether at the behest of its advertisers or on pleas from special segments of business ... it will soon cease to have readers." The Journal, rejoined G.M., seemed to miss the point. "To the extent that this was a reporting of news derived from sources free to divulge the information, we have no objection . . . even though such information, published many months in advance of the introduction of new models...
...equals 7½ shares of Packard (valued at $5.70 a share). On the New York Stock Exchange the spread was not as great; Studebaker was selling for $19 and Packard for $4, a ratio of only about five to one. On this basis, some Packard stockholders may complain that they are getting shortchanged, especially since this exchange would leave Studebaker shareholders with 55% of the new company. But they are not likely to hold up the merger, since neither company can do better alone...
Looking at the plan last week, even the strongest public-power boosters found little to complain about. Congress swiftly passed a bill suspending the old federal program; President Eisenhower is expected to sign it this week...
...very "stern, very grave" waiter with a bullet hole in his temple: he is the lady's husband, who has just committed suicide. "I hope you've been comfortable," says the Devil, when the anguished lovers scuttle back to the elevator. "Hell is nothing to complain of ... We've had everything modernized . . . It's only the soul that suffers nowadays ..." "He might have told me," says the lady indignantly, as the lovers go up into life again...