Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...individual also found cause for complaint in the heavy practice schedule demanding six hours a week, for which only one athletic credit a week is given. Bandsmen rehearse two hours Wednesday evenings, two hours Friday evenings, and must report at 12 o'clock Saturday, on the day a game, for final field manuvers...
...miles away. So V.E. simply had one of his small planemaking subsidiaries, Vultee Aircraft Inc., buy Consolidated. (One planemaker described Vultee's designs on Consolidated as "like a flea going up an elephant's leg with lust in its eye.") Under V.E., the Army & Navy had no complaint about the way Consolidated...
...most cases, done their utmost to facilitate and ease his reconversion problems. Queueing for an education was a novelty for the college but no new matter for him after the past years. Harvard 'quarters' were still infinitely preferable to the GI variety. He had very few grounds for complaint...
Then the mess deepened. Some 2,800 drivers and helpers of the United Parcel Service (department-store deliverers, for the most part) walked out in an unauthorized strike. Their complaint: they had not been paid for the time lost because of the general truck strike. Thousands of New Yorkers worried anew about their jobs-which were so closely geared to the wheels within the wheels of those big, loud, messy trucks...
Actually, it was hard to find great fault with the way President Ivey had run Citizens National. The bank had weathered the depression without Government help (as Giannini's organization had not), its earnings were regular, if unspectacular. A.P.'s only specific complaint: "Its capital funds have not been restored to the 1930 position...