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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once the bargaining got underway, something turned up almost at once. Standard Steel Works, a subsidiary of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, promptly agreed to the full 10?-an-hour pension and welfare package urged by the President as a sound basis for settling the contract dispute in the steel industry (TIME, Sept. 26). But other companies, as usual, would probably wait to see what U.S. Steel decided before they budged...
...House-Senate committee quickly approved the Senate's bill, agreeing to restore nearly $500 million sliced from the legislation on its first run in the House. Confronted with a new and persuasive argument, the full House seemed certain to vote the funds necessary to put the Atlantic pact into operation...
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...educational diet. So are the class barriers between the 70 "scholars" (admitted to Winchester by virtue of high scholastic ability), the 16 "quiristers," who for centuries have received a free education for singing in the choir (until their voices change), and the 400-odd "commoners," whose families pay the full fee to make the lads both scholars and gentlemen...
Atlanta seemed to have the jump on most cities; there the new speech, far more than a few disconnected words, is fast growing into a full-fledged slanguage. Two youngsters meet with the new Atlanta greeting, "Ahhh, Rooshan!" The conversation goes...