Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have had plenty of time to confer, and I suppose you are ready to sign a contract. You are familiar with the War Labor Board proposal, which we accept, but we want $2 a day additional, as we originally requested. [Pause] And I do not want any one-legged counter proposals from you!" At midnight the miners struck...
...same squeeze play occurred in the last war, but that time Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch pulled a shrewd counter-squeeze. After he persuaded the U.S. Treasury to stop shipping silver (to bolster India's currency), burlap prices came down in a hurry. Burlap importers-and their bagless customers-wish they had another Baruch...
United They Stand? If geographical division is a blow to Germany and Japan, it may also force them closer together in their political and military planning. If they would survive, Germany and Japan now have to coordinate their counter-measures most carefully...
...because we're a particularly quarrelsome bunch but because facts will not fit into goosestepping patterns, there are on almost any story clashes and contradictions, some major, some minor, which have to be resolved before it goes to press. They can be resolved only by discussion and counter-discussion in which the managing editor, one or more senior editors, the chief of research, and the writer and researcher who have done the actual spadework on the story are all involved. The only managerial technique that could stand such a strain is a technique that relies not on rigidity...
...Kuban drive, with another from the west against Nazi-held Taganrog, could deprive the Germans of springboards for counter-drives in the south...