Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raised howls that a change would let "stopwatch pirates come into the mills and set speed-up practices." Neither side made a clear case. Steel has no record of flagrant featherbedding; as compared to the same period in 1951, U.S. Steel produced a million tons more in the first half of 1959 while cutting its work force from 301,000 to 241,000. But by McDonald's own admission, at least 100,000 workers in the steel industry still owe their jobs to the work rules, and would lose them if real efficiency could be enforced by steel management...
...half an hour before Stultz spotted the airliner below him. Together they flew above the woolly overcast toward Albany. Stultz heard Moran again...
...herds of beef cattle grazing near the highways. Returning by night, Roden would cover his well-cut suit with a butcher's apron, work a steer or heifer out of the herd, and stun it with an airgun slug. Then, slaughtering and quartering the animal in less than half an hour, Roden would stow his kill in the trunk and back seat of the Mercedes and race back to Düsseldorf. There in the morning, he offered his customers fresh cuts of beef, complete with faked, blue government-inspection stamps...
...said Hoge. "That's an atrophied embryo." The assistant replied: "It can't be; it came from a male." Both Hoge and the assistant were right; the snake had well-developed male reproductive organs but also female ovaries. Hoge checked his specimens and found that more than half were hermaphrodites. Only 15 were true females, and all of them were sterile. The hermaphrodites are bigger than either true males or females. Most are more female than male, and are capable of bearing young...
...Crimson defensive line, however, has become among the best in the league. Led by Jon Christensen whose pursuit and tackling was magnificent against Cornell, the line has held each of its three opponents to less than half the ground yardage gained by the Crimson backfield...