Word: giving
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Kill, Not Cure. Of Taft's 27 other changes, all designed to meet labor's criticisms, one of the most important would continue the ban on closed shops but permit employers to give unions priority on jobs, thus opening the door to the hiring halls supposedly locked up by the Taft-Hartley Act. There would still be bans on mass picketing and jurisdictional strikes, but the ban on secondary boycotts would be slightly relaxed. The new Taft bill would also require management as well as union bosses to sign non-Communist affidavits ; lift Taf t-Hartley...
...farmbuilding program, under which the Government in the next four years will lend farmers $250 million a year and give them $12.5 million in grants (maximum amount: $500 for any one farm building...
Britain would give France ?40 million of drawing rights to cover the expected French deficit in trade with Britain. France by efficient production or persuasive salesmanship or by cutting purchases from Britain, might succeed in reducing its expected deficit from ?40 million to ?25 million. Under the old plan this reduction would give France no advantage within the OEEC system. Under the Petsche plan, however, France could transfer 40% of its British drawing rights to another OEEC country, for instance, Belgium. That way, the Belgians would wind up with part of the U.S. dollars originally allocated to Britain. In other...
...Hungary's favorite vegetables, paprika. As Nazi influence grew in Hungary, he found that his research was a handy cover for underground anti-Nazi work. One of his cloak & dagger jobs was carrying a secret letter to the British legation in Istanbul on the pretense of having to give a scientific lecture in Turkey. When the Gestapo got too close on his trail, he went completely underground disguised as an old man with beard and spectacles...
...This stuff could ignite the atom and send it off," he remarks casually. "It's enough to destroy the little globe called the universe." Dunninger wanted to share his spectacular discovery with the Government, but "they paid no attention to me." During the war, Dunninger tried to give the Navy a method of making battleships invisible, but again was balked by bureaucratic obtuseness. A Navy spokesman snorted: "Wildly fantastic. We refuse to be party to a cheap publicity stunt...