Word: fights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could raise wages 70? an hour and still make 8% on its investment. Said Reuther in one huge gulp: "This is the time for labor to stand up and say we are getting in trouble because the little guy hasn't got enough and therefore he has to fight harder now to get what he is entitled to in order to avoid going into a depression...
Taft's position was a little hard to follow: he wanted the U.S. to announce that it would fight if Russia made an aggressive move in Europe, but was unwilling to sign a treaty which said the same thing in a more carefully hedged...
...tough little film about a washed-up smalltimer in the fight racket, with Robert Ryan (TiME, April...
...Communist-led railway union said that it would fight the firings "to the end." Angry workmen loosened switches, cut wires and attempted train derailments. One rain-soaked night last week, Shimoyama's body, with one arm and both legs cut off, was found lying across the tracks in Tokyo's Adachi ward...
...witty study of sewage-disposal problems (Cleanliness and Godliness, TIME, May 6, 1946), is no nostalgic yearner for the boskier days of old. In Beards he stands aloof (and beardless), a lollipop in one cheek and his tongue in the other, and lets the pro-and anti-beard factions fight...