Word: cuts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson, which last week took a 21 to 34 trouncing by Tufts, will again run without Joe Leeming. The varsity captain cut his foot on a piece of glass a week ago last Monday and doctors yesterday said the injury still was not healed...
...first HMC-sponsored climb was probably to the granite quarries in Quincy, whose smooth, vertical walls were originally cut away for the Bunker Hill Monument. By 1932 the Club had graduated from the molehills of Quincy to the mountains of Asia, and joined in a year-long expedition that reached the top of Minya Kouka--the biggest peak in China--despite makeshift wood-and-iron equipment. The party's original equipment had been shanghaid, logically enough, in Shanghai...
...sometimes they succeeded in looking extremely typical. The typical American college boy abroad in his tourist uniform looked something like this: He had a crew cut, khaki pants, and a seersucker coat with the green edge of a U. S. passport showing above the edge of his inside breast pocket. There was always a camera in a leather case slung Sam Brown belt style over one shoulder, and in his right hand he carried a guide book, open. Vendors of beads, lace, and leather goods, and certain attractive young business women could spot him a mile...
Meanwhile, the cut in the work week had cut coal production from 11,000,000 to 8,000,000 tons a week, reducing the income of the Fund by $600,000 weekly. The mine operators claimed that the income had dropped to $7,000,000 a month, while pensions and benefits were being distributed at an $11,000,000 monthly rate...
...public statement of the Union's requests, Lewis has reportedly injected a whole set of demands into the mediation talks. The Union conditions are said to include an increase in average daily pay from $14.05 to $15.00; a reduction from eight to seven hours a day with no pay cut; an increase of 10 or 20 cents a ton in royalty payments; and a production control plan to spread available work among all miners. Management is reportedly against any sort of raise...