Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike notice, had jumped the gun by eight days on operators of Great Lakes tankers-much to the discomfiture of other C.I.O. leaders who want to keep the strike threat as a Sunday punch against rising prices. Shipboard conditions for the N.M.U.'s 1,100 lakemen could hardly explain the haste. And the pay ranging from $150 a month for freighter deckhands to $310 for chief stewards on tankers, is good, considering the fact that seamen get meals and bunk. What Joe Curran was really engaged in was an all-out membership drive...
What, in the meantime, Stalin & Co. might do themselves to prove their devotion to the same cause Correspondent Stowe does not stop to explain. His vague, but earnest, urgent domestic prescription...
This transformation is difficult to explain, and Margaret Cole not only avoids it, but seems unaware of the challenge it presents to the belief that socialism can be achieved peacefully within the framework of political democracy. The present British government would tend to substantiate Beatrice Webb's earlier theories, but it is still too early to evaluate the permanency of her contribution...
...extractions are dangerous during polio season. Reason: many polio infections enter the body through exposed nerves in the nose or mouth, travel along nerves to the spinal cord, where their ravages begin. "The rich nerve supply of the dental pulp offers a most formidable invasion point for the virus," explain Drs. Reese and Frisch. Some of their evidence...
...years policing the 120-acre lot at Burbank, making certain that no unnecessary lights are burning and that everybody is at work. Insisting that even high-bracket writers check in every morning by 9:30, Jack also knows how to deal with unimaginative studio types. He dreaded having to explain to Warner salesmen in 1935 that he planned to film a tony biography of Louis Pasteur. Paul Muni, he announced tersely, would be starred in a picture called The Death Fighter. "You're casting Muni as a pug?" one salesman screamed, "You'll ruin him." "No, no," Jack...