Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government in an amazing display of well-bred wage restraint. But at long last, a new militancy is in the air, and a new spokesman-thrusting aside Britain's square-shoed union leadership-has pushed forward to defy the Tory government's anti-inflationary program and demand a bigger wage packet for Britain's workers. He is burly, 6-ft.-2-in. Frank Cousins, 52, whose powerful Transport and General Workers' Union (1,300,000 members) last week published a resolution for September's Trades Union Congress that "rejects the principle of wage restraint...
...McEwen and his Rhodesian sculptress wife, Cecilia, night after night dashed between their .flat and the gallery to drape damp towels over the frames of the stretching masterpieces. When asked about the effect of this do-it-yourself humidifying on the canvases, McEwen had a ready answer: "Emergencies demand drastic measures. That was all we could do. Anyway we saved the day-or rather the nights...
...manufacturers of vaccine against Asian influenza did better than they had expected: last week, well ahead of schedule, two companies turned out half a million shots and (with an eye to public relations) allocated most of the vaccine to meet civilian demand. Philadelphia's National Drug Co. was ready with 260,000 straight anti-Asian shots, plus 60,000 shots of polyvalent vaccine, compounded for use against three types of flu recently current, including the Asian. Lederle Laboratories of Pearl River, N.Y. had churned out 180,000 doses, set aside half for the armed forces (which will do their...
...Iceman Strilceth. In Armidale, New South Wales. Australia, cleaning women at state schools called on their union to demand a 55?-a-day "chillblain allowance" on days so cold that ice forms in their buckets...
...prevent drastic price falls from one year to the next. In coping with a commodity in oversupply, e.g., wheat, Benson would lower the support price bit by bit. Gradually, farmers would shift wheat fields to more profitable crops. In time-he hopes -supply would come into balance with demand, acreage controls would fade away, and the flow of wheat into Government storage would...