Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operations." Last month the industry eased this demand to a proposal to submit the 2-B issue to a two-man panel (one member chosen by the industry, one by the union) with compulsory arbitration if the panel failed to reach agreement by mid-1960. McDonald refused to consider even this diluted proposal...
While the West was growing 29% in population, the Central states registered a just-average 15%, the South lagged behind the national average with 13.5%, and the East lagged even further with just under 10%. Four states actually shrank in population during 1950-58: Arkansas, 8%; West Virginia, 2%; Vermont. 1.5%; Mississippi, 1%. Most striking exceptions to the slowish growth patterns of the East and South: Delaware's population expanded no less than 40% (rapid industrial growth drew in a lot of newcomers), Florida's a boom-sized...
...passing swipe, that he was sore at the once-devoted New York Post, which had recently taken some potshots at him. But beyond that, nobody was quite certain whom he had in mind; he could have meant Stevenson, whose passive third-time availability galls him, or he could even have meant Eleanor Roosevelt, who is part of a New York reform group trying to upset Tammany Leader Carmine De Sapio...
...steadily to its insistence that Algeria is part of France and hence none of the General Assembly's business, once again boycotted the debate. But Charles de Gaulle's offer of self-determination to Algeria (TIME, Sept. 28) had so strengthened France's moral posture that even Saudi Arabia's volatile Ahmad Shukairy, wildest of Arab orators, felt obliged to express his "esteem, tribute, and high regard" for the general. Seeing that they were not mustering enough support, the Afro-Asians, led by Pakistan's Aly Khan, softened their resolution even more (ALGERIAN REBELS...
...Edward the Confessor's Palace of Westminster, sprawl over eight acres of Gothic mazes, including 1,100 rooms, eleven quadrangles and 100 staircases. But aside from Ministers and the Leader of the Opposition, not one of the 630 M.P.s has an office all his own-or even rates a permanent desk...