Word: coopered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soap and Shoes. Almost everyone is for the annual wage - in principle. But only a trifling number of U.S. companies have been brave enough to try it out in fact. One of the first was Procter & Gamble (Crisco, Ivory Soap), in 1923. Its socially conscious president, the late William Cooper Procter, felt that the "outstanding evil" of the U.S. economic system was its in ability to provide steady employment, decided to guarantee all P. & G. workers 48 weeks of work a year. Working out such a plan was not simple. Although the consumer demand for soap is year-around, wholesalers...
...Thomas Callender, who called President Adams such names as "hoary-headed incendiary," was fined $200 and jailed for sedition. Dr. Thomas Cooper, a Pennsylvania editor, paid a $400 fine and spent six months in jail for even milder cracks at Adams...
...should all get the Air Medal," said Staff Sergeant Edward Cooper, who described the attack as "epic, colossal, historymaking. It is the only one in recent months not made by mighty swarms of four-engined bombers. We failed to shoot down 120 enemy planes. We did not obliterate the target, and despite flak which was not thick enough to walk on, we did not start fires visible for 80 miles...
Song of Bernadette (Jennifer Jones, Gladys Cooper, Charles Bickford; TIME...
Song of Bernadette (Jennifer Jones, Gladys Cooper, Charles Bickford; TIME...