Word: extended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last fall a student committee headed by Emily L. Hartshorne '62 reported that most dormitory residents found the meal program "inconvenient" and urged the College to end compulsory lunches or to extend the lunch hour...
...Honeymoon. The honeymoon lasted for nine years as Pan Am and Panagra flourished. But in 1938, the Grace interests tried to extend Panagra's routes to the U.S. The Pan Am-controlled directors on Panagra's board blocked the move on the ground that Panagra was part of the Pan Am system and that extension would make it a competitive carrier. Determined to keep Panagra a dead-end airline, Pan Am two years later ordered its directors to boycott Panagra board meetings at which extension was scheduled to be discussed...
...union firmly behind him, Hoffa feels ready to begin a mass organizing drive that would extend Teamster jurisdiction even further, and include thousands of workers in key industries with little or no connection with trucking. Though he envisions a combination of vast size and economic influence, Hoffa denies that he could with a single strike order halt all trucking in the country; it wouldn't be good business, he says...
Gizenga has sent out an urgent appeal for help. Last week nine Communist-bloc countries and seven left-leaning neutrals lined up to extend him diplomatic recognition as the "legitimate" government of the Congo. But even if Gizenga gets support from abroad, he is a poor stand-in for Lumumba as a national leader. He has little political presence, is a faltering orator who does not even speak the Eastern province's Swahili...
...tour. "If we don't take the proper action, we'll be in a depression." Avowed purpose of Goldberg's "nonpolitical" mission was to solicit bipartisan support for President Kennedy's plan to pass a depressed areas bill, grant $1.2 billion in federal subsidies to extend the duration of unemployment benefits and aid the children of the unemployed. To a cheering audience of Gary steelworkers, longtime United Steelworkers Counsel Goldberg said grandly: "In years past I used to have some power in shutting the mills down. Now my job is to put them to work again...