Word: factly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know yet . . ." said Unruh, in a matter-of-fact voice, "but it looks like a pretty good score." Why are you killing people? "I don't know," he said. "I can't answer that yet-I'm too busy. I'll have to talk to you later...
...headline news of the week was that a steel strike had been postponed-if not averted entirely. For an economy which could stand no rocking of the boat, the bigger news was that the President's three-man fact-finding committee had come out decisively against a fourth-round wage increase...
...days the three men on the fact-finding board had listened as 60 stubborn steelmakers and six stubborn labor leaders made their largely contradictory points. The board wrote its report. Last week, in a body, it went to the White House...
Over & beyond all that was the matter of the national welfare. "A wage increase in steel," the fact-finders reasoned, "would be urged as a pattern to be followed in other industries; this in turn might well cause price dislocations . . . interruptions to production might ensue." Steel workers themselves "would run the risk of losing more than they had gained." Said the board: "In general, it seems desirable at this time to stabilize the level of wage rates . . . the union [should] withdraw its request for a general increase in rates...
Nevertheless, the board told steelmakers and the steel unions to get back to company-by-company bargaining. They would have to make a start in that direction, in fact, when they negotiated pension and insurance terms...