Word: cores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Core: Within 90 days private employers in nonessential industries are to reduce by 20% the number of men they employ; so will the State. Where necessary they may hire women as replacements. The men set free are to be eased into farm work, backbone of Minnesota's economy, by means of State-financed urban & rural farm labor recruiting offices and rehabilitation of skilled oldsters...
Akron-world's largest rubber manufacturing center and the very core of the U.S. war effort-last week produced at 15% below capacity despite a five-year backlog of munitions orders. Instead of the patriotic hustle & bustle which throbs in most defense-plant towns, Akron was a gigantic time bomb, relentlessly, awesomely ticking. Over the place hung a pall of suspicion, bitterness, hatred. Management and labor wrangled, sparred and fought. Root of the trouble is the six-hour day started by management during the depression, now grimly held by the union as a labor "asset...
...signal drum is made by an expert drum maker who digs out the core of a 2-to 3½-ft. log. He does his digging through a 3-to 4-in. slit running the length of the log. The wood on one side of the slit is thicker than that on the other to provide a difference in pitch between the two sides...
...long as Sir Henry holds his bridge, neither defeat in southern Russia nor defeat in Egypt can be final. At the inner core of the Middle East, Allied armies will still be where they can get at, hold off and thrust back the Axis armies. There will still be an Allied wall between the Germans in Europe and Africa and the Japanese in Burma or India. But, if the Allies lose their Middle Eastern bridge, they will then be on the outer fringes of the greatest land mass ever controlled by one power or group of powers. The Axis will...
...aristocrat by birth, a "repentant bourgeois" by definition, Nehru has fought "muddled humanitarians" and opportunists among the Hindu intellectuals and middle class bourgeoisie which form the core of the Congress party. Started in 1885 by a retired British colonial, the party, since Gandhi took control of it in World War I, has had a melange of supporters held together by one goal: Swaraj (political independence...