Word: far
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disappointment, none of them followed him into active army service. One reason they didn't, he thinks, was because of the shock of coming back to the U.S. after their early years spent in the Orient. "The clash of life in the U.S., after the quiet of the Far East," he says, "was very exciting to them. It was all we could do to hold them in line...
Nobody had to read far to find out what the announcement meant: "Subsidiaries of United States Steel Corp. have announced today new mill prices . . ." Thus last week did Big Steel's President Benjamin F. Fairless give his answer to the $100-a-month pensions won by the C.I.O. Steelworkers only five weeks before (TIME, Nov. 21). Because of higher operating costs, said Fairless, the company was raising the price of steel by an average of 4%, i.e., $4 a ton. Other steelmen scurried to their adding machines to figure out new price schedules themselves. But by week...
...Steel's customers certainly would not like the $80 million-a-year increase in their steel bill, especially in the light of steel profits. In the first nine months of 1949, U.S. Steel netted $133 million, 50% more than in the same period in 1948. And so far as Ben Fairless could see last week, the future looked rosy. Operations of Big Steel, he said, should continue at 100% of capacity for another six months, then slip off to perhaps 85%. To some it looked suspiciously as if Big Steel, trying hard to make up the profits lost during...
...Messina during a 48-hour visit. Our situation was fully discussed. And I want to make clear that at that time the relationship between Ingrid and myself was absolutely correct. It is not our fault, is it, if we cannot get married because Ingrid has been unable so far to obtain a divorce...
...DeMille's 68 movies in the 36 years since he made the first feature-length film (The Squaw Man) have cost an approximate total of $33 million (not including advertising expenses). Thus far, the first 67 have grossed $562 million...