Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also on the Central Committee's agenda were plans for the next full meeting of the World Council, scheduled for Evanston, Ill. in 1953. Dr. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, president of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, expressed "grave doubt if we will be able to meet in 1953," and suggested that the committee might well postpone setting a theme for that meeting. The committee concurred...
...Labor Department foresaw no grave problems of manpower shortage. "Most companies," it said, "are still operating on a 40-hour week. By going on a 48-hour week, they could easily turn out more goods with the same work force." Some plants had already done so: among them, Bridgeport's Remington Arms Co., the five Ohio factories of Timken Roller Bearing Co. In Indianapolis, General Motors' Allison division canceled the vacations of 8,000 workers, paid them extra to speed its current orders for jet engines and tank transmissions...
...rainy monsoon season, good flying days are too few. In spite of continued B-29 bombing north of the 38th parallel and effective raids on the Han River crossings, the enemy seemed to be keeping his supply lines in fair order. And MacArthur's communiques constantly mentioned the grave danger of envelopment by Communists from the Wonju-Chungju area, of southward thrusts from Communist beachheads at Utchin and other points on the east coast. To exorcise these specters it would be necessary to string across the peninsula four to six Allied divisions-which last week would be a long...
...drove to her family's ancestral home, Oud-Vossemeer, where the whole town, including 40 local Roosevelts, turned out to cheer her. In Luxembourg, she went to a banquet given for her by Grand Duchess Charlotte, took Madam Minister Perle Mesta out to lay a wreath on the grave of General George Patton. After that, she was off for Paris, where she had a date with President Vincent Auriol...
...Communists lost control of an important political weapon-France's social security system. The purse strings of the French "securite sociale," which last year paid out 426 billion francs ($1.2 billion) to ease the French workers' path from cradle to grave, are held by 234 regional boards. Both workers and employers elect representatives to sit on the boards. Three years ago, France's Communist labor unions managed to elect 60% of the board members. Two weeks ago 5½ million French workers went to the polls to elect new social security representatives. When the returns were counted...