Word: equal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passed on a roll call vote, 196 to 133, and sent to the Senate a bill by Delegate Joseph R. Farrington (R-Hawaii) to enable the people of Hawaii to form a constitution and state government and to be admitted to the Union on an equal footing with the other 48 states...
TIME'S editorial operation is geared to handle the vagaries of the news, which has no respect for editorial deadlines, and such high-speed devices as the radio, telephone and telegraph are generally equal to this challenge. Some of the critical materials we work with also use older, slower methods of communication. Newspictures, for instance, generally go by plane or train-as does background editorial copy designed to be kept on file until events make it news. Dailey's job, in part, is to dispatch and pick up these slower moving materials with the least loss of time...
...Says Knight: "We don't know what causes that activity, but it applies to all life." The sun and the moon seem to have something to do with it. Fishermen and hunters who follow the solunar tables, says Knight, will have the best luck-other things being equal...
...growth and embarrassed by the old Jim Crow system, were ready to meet the union's demands, at least half way. By last week the union claimed these gains: 1) removal of the hateful gold and silver signs in public places; 2) an order admitting Panamanians to equal terms in civil service exams; 3) hourly wage hikes of 2? to 6?; 4) a 40-hour week; 5) improved vacation privileges; 6) more overtime...
...around 21? a lb. to as low as 15?. Some planters fear that they may fall to 10?. The reasons are 1) the club held over crude prices by U.S. synthetic-rubber production and 2) estimated world production of 1.2 to 1.5 million tons of natural rubber in 1947, equal to 1941's alltime record...