Word: halfs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been operating throughout the strike on union-granted contract extensions. But McDonald's drive never got beyond the easy pickings of the minors, soon hit the stiffened wall of major company resistance. Top steel negotiators declared that the Kaiser contract 1) would cost non-Kaiser companies nearly half again as much, 2) provided contract reopening in 1961, which was "intolerable to all," and 3) left work rules to be settled "on a case-by-case basis at the pleasure of the union...
...pointed out to the committee, had only a policymaking function; actual sales of surplus property were handled by other agencies, mainly the Commerce Department and the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Symington had no operating control over sales, no way of seeing to it that his policies were carried out. After half a year of frustrations, he went to Truman and urged him to wrap policymaking and selling into a single agency. Truman abolished Symington's SPA, set up the War Assets Administration, with Lieut. General E. B. Gregory as boss. To Symington's great relief, he was out from...
...nation can long exist with an economy half Communist and half free. And yet this is what Wladyslaw Gomulka has tried to bring off in Poland. Being a Communist, he did not intend it that way either, but had to react to the situation of Poland's arrested revolution of October 1956. His compromising never sat well with the diehards of the Stalinist era, who believed in tough and tidy centralized control. Gomulka allowed more local authority for factory managers and town bosses, and peasants were permitted to abandon the collective farms to till their own plots...
Beautiful Head. Twenty years ago, Trieste was second only to Genoa among Italian ports; today it is eighth. Trieste's maritime traffic has dropped 25% in the past two years, and rail traffic is less than half the 1957 rate. More than 17,000 Triestini (12% of the labor force) are unemployed, and the number of "disguised unemployed"-their livelihood provided by government make-work projects-is steadily increasing...
...succeeded in forcing the appointment of a new government from which the ministers Moscow disapproved were excluded. Hungary convinced many Finns that in any open quarrel with Russia, their country would have to fight alone. Besides, Russia got a hammer lock on the Finnish economy, or at least a half nelson, by exacting such heavy reparations after World War II that the Finns, in order to pay them, had to set up industry for which Russia is the only real market...