Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a time when the C.I.O.'s highhanded, Red-tinted National Maritime Union could & would tie up a ship at the drop of a seaman's swab. Last week, when the United States Lines' S.S. America docked in New York with a sizzling labor dispute aboard, company officials prepared for the worst. The union's delegate, a wiry, intense ship's electrician named Walter Avellar, had served an ultimatum: either the company fired Chief Crew Steward W. S. McDonald and reinstated two seamen, or the ship would not sail. Roared grim-jawed, grim-tempered...
...government is corrupt. Don't give Western Europe a military guarantee against Russia-it might have to be kept. Don't speak up for U.S. ideals of democracy- rude persons might laugh. Stay out of the dirt and danger (where civilization will be won or lost), but drop a nice clean atomic bomb...
Nobody knows better than Stalin that the U.S. drop-the-bomb talk is mere "sentiment," an outgrowth of political prudery that refuses to face the facts of politics. In This Week Cartoonist Ray Helle neatly ticked it off with this sentiment: two parrots are sitting on a perch; behind them is a cat; says one parrot to the other, "Stop worrying about the atom bomb and keep your...
...cars. Said one overloaded Livernois dealer: "Somebody's going to take one hell of a licking on this street. It looks like there's going to be more finance people operating the used car business than there are models on the lots." Cashless Customers. What caused the drop? Northern dealers blamed bad winter weather and increased new car production...
...stock, were worried again. Wall Street thought that Cyrus Eaton of Otis & Co., an old K-F friend turned enemy (TIME, Feb. 23), was dumping 45,000 shares of K-F stock he held. It helped drive down the price to 8 7/8 at week's end, a drop of almost six points in one month from the high of the year...