Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peter and Sara. ers in labor disputes; a denial of the right of foremen to belong to rank & file unions; a measure against the secondary boycott; a federal board to arbitrate jurisdictional disputes; and some provision making it easier to sue a union in federal court for breach of contract...
...Manchester Guardian chided: "It is dangerous when economies . . . contract intellectual horizons. . . ." At week's end, BBC Chairman Lord Inman, in an apologetic letter to the London Times, "deplored the necessity," promised to restore the cultural program "at the earliest moment . . . allowed...
...Catholic theologians nowadays unanimously admit the lawfulness of a defensive strike. ... A strike directed to obtaining better conditions, even though those actually existing are not unjust . . . is not permissible, if it involves the violation of a just contract. But even when there is no injustice . . . there may be a violation of charity toward the employer and the general public...
...T.W.A. Board Chairman T. B. Wilson resigned. In the airline's offices, higher-ups were quoting odds that Frye would soon follow suit. No one had more cause to worry than Lockheed. T.W.A. has put in a big order for Lockheed's new Constellation 649, under a contract which binds Lockheed to offer the first 18 of them to T.W.A. But T.W.A. can refuse the planes, one by one. Thus Lockheed is bound to sweat commercial blood as long as T.W.A.'s troubles continue...
...Rory Calhoun, 24, under contract to David 0. Selznick for two years, is an ex-lumberjack, an ex-boxer. He was "discovered" on a riding ranch. His chief asset: he suggests a younger, more dangerous Victor Mature...