Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wages were not an issue this time. With both congressional labor bills dead-aimed at their right to bargain under the Wagner act, they were scrambling against time for a contract which would give them a dues checkoff, a liberalized retirement plan, the right to speak for non-union foremen as well as F.A.A. members. Ford officials conceded that the strikers might be able to cripple production within a week...
...starting demands on the private operators, they were, as usual, stupendous: a five-day, 40-hour week, at the same pay as for the present 54-hour week; doubling of the 5?: royalty for his welfare fund on each ton of coal mined; inclusion of supervisors in his contract. But for the first time since 1943 he had agreed to separate sessions with Northern and Southern operators. Mineworkers headquarters henchmen were already talking confidently of an agreement by June 15-if not before...
...estimates of the nature of the sun's composition will be the goal of a two-year research program under Naval contract by a group of scientists including Professor Donald H. Menzel, associate director for Solar Research...
...Risks? The Army & Navy were told what they already knew: the 14 major plane companies, which had expanded enough to build 96,000 planes in 1944, had been forced to contract to a production of only 1.330 military planes last year. The industry, which had not been able to cut its overhead accordingly, could not survive without larger orders. Commercial orders have passed their peak and by next year the airlines may have just about all the planes they will need for a long time. The Army & Navy had little to offer but sympathy. Present budget schedules, which will probably...
...with Baker and more delightfully with Bobby Clark. Even the W. C. Fields routine with McCarthy pales next to Clark's classic buffoonery. Each wheeze is on hand--"you fugitive from a picket fence," "you animated clothespin," "you talking totem pole"--but crisp as toast before that long-term contract with Chase and Sanborn...