Word: extended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Evidently the Government did not mean it. All the ingredients for a full showdown were assembled, but instead of arresting John Lewis, the Government, through another branch (Harold L. Ickes) asked Mr. Lewis not to strike against it. Mr. Lewis, with a great show of patriotism, agreed to extend the strike truce till May 31, sending out 5,000 telegrams over the overburdened telegraph lines to tell his lieutenants the strike was postponed, thus ending two weeks of buildup...
...amused to find that wearing the prescribed summer uniform means breaking regulations. It says here distinctly that the short sleeve shall extend two thirds of the way from elbow to wrist. As for the suits, the primary rule is that the skirt should be of the same material as the jacket and MATCHING IN COLOR. Radcliffe supply officers, garbed in what was once reserve blue, then on second thought dyed a deeper shade, hope to avoid billets in the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts wherein the standard for the WAVES' Navy blue is kept. We are still awaiting the arrival...
...latest scuttlebutt from the yard is that we will be here for one more month than we had planned which will extend the course to six months instead of five . . . But what more than that we shall...
Timing his attack to meet labor's charges that retail prices have skyrocketed beyond reach, Price Boss Prentiss Brown promised: 1) to extend price control to "every important commodity"; 2) to roll back prices which have got out of hand (meat, fresh and canned vegetables, coffee); 3) to establish specific dollars-&-cents maximum prices for all foods...
Holidays and recesses have not been seriously curtailed, as was previously expected, a week's vacation being allowed between terms and all the small vacations given as usual. Christmas Holiday, however, does not extend over New Years as in former years...