Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost. In their last-ditch conferences last week, negotiators for Big Steel and Big Labor almost made it. In Washington, a three-man industry subcommittee headed by Jones & Laughlin Steel's Ben Moreell sat across the table from a labor trio headed by Steelworker Boss Phil Murray. Point by point, they took up each economic issue, e.g., pay raise, holiday pay. They made tentative agreements, went on to the next issue. Finally, they approached agreement on a wages-benefit package which would eventually cost the company 24.6? per man-hour (present average hourly wage...
Meanwhile, the prisoner death list following the battle of Compound 76 rose to 41.* At least twelve of these were killed by last-ditch fanatics for refusing to fight or for trying to obey Boatner's orders, some were bayoneted in the trenches by U.S. paratroopers, and others died in buildings captured only after concussion grenades were tossed in. The Americans did not fire a shot, although the prisoners fought with spears, homemade swords, clubs and barbed-wire flails. Also found were maps which indicated that a Communist capture of the whole island had been planned...
...wounded pride might be restored by a 6-ft. barge canal linking the principal cities with the Atlantic. According to Tacho, Vice President Jack Garner tipped the scales in his favor by turning to F.D.R., highball in hand, and drawling: "Why don't you give this boy his ditch...
...last-ditch Verdi-lovers turned out to express their disapproval, greeted the opening curtain with whistles, catcalls and shouts of "Vergogna, vergogna!" (Shame, shame!). But the ruckus was feeble compared with the uproar they raised over Gian-Carlo Menotti's Consul and Juan Jose Castro's Proserpina (TIME, Feb. 5, 1951; March...
Death also came to Henry A. Frost '05, former chairman of the department of Architectural Design, and of late a visiting professor of Architecture at Ohio University. Frost was fatally injured when his car ran off the road and plunged into a ditch about five miles northeast of Athens, Ohio. Police said he apparently suffered a heart attack or fell asleep at the wheel...