Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is no easy answer. It is not going to be easy for labor to accept the fact that in one way or another real wages are going to be cut, yet that greater production must go on. Nor is it going to be easy to re-establish discipline in the shops...
Significant is C.E.D.'s highly decentralized "grassroots" approach. It proposes ultimately to establish up to 150 regional offices which will canvass local industry to find out how quickly it can convert from war work to peace; what is its top peacetime capacity; and how each firm plans to merchandise its products so as to create a mass market...
...flooded cellars and-indirectly-more than 250 fires. Mothers from Boston's West End section picketed the Statehouse with placards: "We want more oil for our children." Hundreds of users of small kerosene heaters besieged dealers for supplies (see cut). Governor Leverett Saltonstall issued an emergency order to establish shelters for half-frozen families...
That well-informed Japs expect no quick and easy victory was underscored last week when the Tokyo radio announced that the Government would reform the important Tokyo Stock Exchange "to stabilize fluctuations" (i.e., prevent panics) and "establish a financial structure which would fit into the prosecution of a long-term war." The action followed persistent selling which has lowered leading stocks as much as 35 points since the Battle of the Solomon Islands began...
...building major bases around the world. New ones now at Casablanca, at Oran, and soon, I hope, at Bizerte. Right now we are preparing to establish air and naval facilities at Dakar. We have a tremendous installation in the Persian Gulf. We have built bases along the shores of the Red Sea area, initially to support the British Middle Eastern operations and now for our own air force in that theater. We have run a double track across equatorial Africa. We have established, with the cooperation of Brazil, air facilities in the bulge of Brazil. We have lookouts strung clear...