Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris the strike fell flat. Trains, trams, busses, trucks moved. The Government offices operated without a hitch. The factories opened and the workers, except in a very few instances, went to work. For example, of the nearly 20,000 Paris subway workers, only 200 failed to report for duty. At 8 a.m. the powerful Subway Workers Union revoked its strike order and by noon Paris was doing business as usual...
...made to operate switches and contactors at the critical temperature, the Jackson-Russell alloy can be used to shut off costly machines at the point of overheating; for automatic fire alarms and sprinklers; for air conditioning, refrigeration, household heating. So far the alloy has no name except the "Fe-Ni-Cr-Si system," from the symbols of the four chemical elements which compose...
Vicente Gómez in a Guitar Recital (Decca). Three-disc album of Flamenco and other Spanish music composed (except for one number) and played by a 26-year-old Madrileño whose style is in its way as exciting as that of the great classicist Segovia...
Surprising fact is, the vast majority of profit-sharing plans have been suggested by owners and managers, not by employes. Every labor leader since Samuel Gompers has been flat-footedly opposed to profit-sharing except under special circumstances. Management generally thinks of it from one of four angles-promotion of employe security, improvement of employe-owner relations, solution of social problems, or as an incentive to increase production. Labor leaders dislike it because it makes unionization more difficult; causes particular companies to deviate from standard union wage scales; represents deferred compensation which workers would rather have weekly; and, finally, opens...
...years ago, after an absence of 18 years, she returned to the soft-coal country to gather material for a new novel. This time she saw gutted farms, depleted mines, nothing to evoke the dream of Carnegie and Frick except the taste of gritty coal dust...