Word: got
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wage boosts won by unions. Admitted a United Auto Workers official in Detroit, on the eve of the threatened steel strike (see BUSINESS) : "My guess is that the steel strike will get as little actual support, from the public and from labor in general, as any strike ever got. The average working stiff is becoming much more realistic about these things...
...workmen were still driving stakes. But at eight o'clock the Governor and other prominent citizens arrived by boat for the formal ribbon-cutting dedication of the Metropolitan Boston Arts Center. And a half hour later, the Theatre lights went down and the Cambridge Drama Festival's inaugural performance got under way right on time...
...whole taunting of Malvolio in prison, though I realize it's the climax of the entire anti-Malvolio plotting. This does mean I'm upsetting Shakespeare's delicately balanced construction; but that will have to yield just this once to allow for my additions, because, after all, I've got to have a really festive show...
...produce remarkable offspring. One of the highway's first companies was Bomac Laboratories, Inc., which grew out of an engineering group at Sylvania and produced microwave tubes and devices (1958 sales: $10 million). When Bomac merged with Varian Associates this year, six key employees were piqued because they got less than 1% of the swapped stock; in April they stalked off with four others to form Metco (Microwave Electronic Tube Co.) and compete with their former employer. Within nine days they had a plant in Salem, Mass., financing, firm contracts and a production schedule calling for June deliveries...
...Iron Butt. It was at law school, too, that Nixon earned a fellow student's compliment: "You've got an iron butt, and that's the secret of becoming a lawyer.'' The Mazo biography recalls once again that many who have tried to kick Nixon have only succeeded in stubbing their toes on that iron butt. He has been lucky, but he also managed to escape numerous brushes with political disaster thanks to political skill and courage. Mazo reports, for instance, how in 1956 Eisenhower suggested to Nixon that he might want a Cabinet post...