Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good for Everybody. Those three offers embraced just about all the variations on the principle over which the steel industry was deadlocked. Apparently both industry and labor could be persuaded to modify their stands on the question of employee contributions. The real test was whether the plans would work out in practice...
...quick glance, they seemed to be good propositions for everybody. Ford's mandatory payments of 8 3/4?-an-hour a worker would go into a fund administered by an insurance company, would supplement the 1 1/4?-an-hour insurance program already in effect. After 30 years of service at age 65, workers would be paid enough out of the fund to give them a $100-a-month pension, counting in their Social Security. As Social Security increased, Ford's part of the obligation would decrease. Ford could count on a lessening of its labor turnover; workers could look...
...speeches began, a wonderful, if temporary, surge of good feeling united the thousands in the hall. Bill Boyle almost wept as he stood listening to the roar of the crowd's applause. Vice President Alben Barkley was inspired to a stirring attack on Republicans. Challenging the G.O.P.'s new campaign slogan, he cried: "Will those people who see in every tree frog a roaring lion, and in every angleworm a spreading adder, please rise and tell us what is statism...
...Vice President Barkley's attentions to Mrs. Carleton Hadley of St. Louis, he added: "I am exceedingly glad that he is about to become a citizen of Missouri." The following day-after a side trip to Independence-Harry Truman flew back to the White House, glowing with good spirits and leaving Missouri in a pleasant twitter of excitement over the Veep's romantic intentions...
...Thanksgiving? U.S. excess stocks were plentiful, if badly out of balance. The U.S. had plenty of antiaircraft guns (many of them without fire-control equipment or prime movers). It had thousands of 81-mm. mortars, a good many excess tanks (needing guns and radios before shipment), 155-mm. howitzers, scout cars, machine guns and military radios. In all, some $450 million worth of excess materiel was scheduled for Western Europe's armies. Only the cost of rehabilitation-estimated at $77 million-would be charged...