Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...haggisless St. Andrew's Day had faced Scots in Canada once before-in 1943. Then, they had flooded Ottawa with skirls of protest. This time the forewarned Board ruled: ". . . it was felt that an exception could be made for haggis, because as many Scotsmen contend it is a hardship to eat it as maintain it is a hardship to go without...
...TWICE AS WELL THIS TIME AGAINST INFLATIONARY PRESSURES MANY TIMES GREATER. BIG CHALLENGE TO AMERICA NOW IS FOR BUSINESS AND CONSUMERS AND GOVERNMENT TO HOLD THE LINE THROUGH TRANSITION PERIOD TO SUSTAINED PROSPERITY. AFTER END OF WORLD WAR ONE COST OF LIVING INDEX ROSE ANOTHER 40%, CAUSED MISERY AND HARDSHIP. WE ARE DETERMINED THAT SHALL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN...
...would urge the President to permit voluntary wage-rate increases arrived at through collective bargaining, even where they break the Little Steel formula. One condition: that employers do not ask a corresponding increase in prices. One exception: they were willing to order wage boosts above the formula in exceptional hardship cases, even if higher prices were necessary...
With only six commercial television stations yet in operation-three in New York City, one each in Schenectady, Philadelphia and Chicago-the $400 to $500 cost of television receivers has worked no real hardship on the privileged U.S. public. But lest it should, Manhattan's Viewtone Co. last week said that it was ready with a set for "the average man." Viewtone, which is now making electronic devices for military use, backed its claim by displaying a small table model, with a small (4½ x 6½ in.) screen. Price: $100. Viewtone promised to go into production...
Until they can rebuild their city Berliners will live in hardship, but the degree of hardship can also be exaggerated. Compared to life in any city in the U.S., it would be extreme. Compared to the Parisian twelve weeks after Paris was liberated, the Berliner is not so badly off. His greatest lack is shelter, which he finds by living in cellars, in temporary wooden barracks, or, in most cases, with somebody else. This is uncomfortable in the summer. In cold weather, as the Parisians found last winter, it makes it a little less cold...