Word: factness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High Hopes. Thus, with high hopes, the United Steelworkers set out last week to deal with steel companies who, after five strikebound weeks, were making conciliatory sounds. In contrast to the simple 10?-an-hour plan proposed by President Truman's fact-finders and rejected by industry, the new formula required four typewritten pages of "simplified" explanation by the union. The steelworkers would pay some of their wages-2¼? an hour-into the insurance half of the fund, with Bethlehem chipping in another 2½? an hour for each worker. But the company would have...
Administration members jumped on the Democratic sweep in the Empire State to point up their claims of bigger and better things for the Fair Deal. They pointed to victories in traditionally Republican cities like Syracuse and Port Jervis, and to the fact that four Democrats gained city council seats in Philadelphia, of all places. They chuckled over Fulton Lewis' confident pre-election remark that Harry Truman couldn't call Lehman's victory a mandate unless he got a 100,000 majority...
Demolishing monotony is a worthy goal, and a far better one than a naive attempt to infect the College with Rah Rah. In fact, the Key seems to be organizing the whole project fairly intelligently--there is a good chance that the project will avoid the sort of snares and pitfalls that finessed the all-college dance plans last year and ended the class of '51 dance...
Admittedly, Class Committee elections are not of atomic importance. But the fact is that Juniors will have a chance to vote tomorrow, and Sophomores next week, and that fact makes the occasion worth-while...
...fact remains that the food as it is now will always be a problem, and the student protest will not subside until the Administration goes to work on a permanent solution...