Word: headway
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...daily rallying new members about him, is very far from beaten. Curiously, it is a matter of almost equal certainty that William Green is also far from being beaten. Although about 1,000,000 workers broke away to form C.I.O., although A. F. of L. organizers have made little headway compared to John L. Lewis' go-getting staff, the strength of A. F. of L. has not been seriously shaken. Today John L. Lewis has political power in his own name, but William Green has greater power in the name of a nation's politicians, the majority...
...Carlo Opera and Manhattan's Hippodrome company; it signed up 280 of these, got them a closed shop and a $40-a-week minimum wage. In the Metropolitan Opera, whose best singers are also the singers of periodic opera in Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, the G.O.A.A.A. made little headway whereas the Guild, soon after its organization, appeared able to do better. On such grounds the Guild demanded G.O.A.A.A.'s charter. Last week came a show-down before the Associated Actors & Artistes of America, the rejuvenated "one big union" of the U. S. entertainment field (TIME...
...automobile, the radio and the rayon industry, the pattern of society today might be different from what it is. The report recommended establishment of a board which would keep trad; of developments in and try to foresee the sociological impacts of 13 new technologies which seem to be gathering headway for a booming future...
...rowing supremacy. Every shell on the Hudson except Syracuse and Columbia used the Washington technique of a short "layback" and a swift catch. But none could flip the blades back faster than Washington's oarsmen, who concentrated their strength in the middle of the stroke, made most headway even in choppy water...
...embarks on a shy, secretive courtship, and much to his surprise makes headway fast. He tries to keep his affair a secret from his friends, but long before Pat comes to live with him they know all about it. Pat has a secret of her own-tuberculosis. She and Robert go off for a honeymoon vacation by the sea; one day she has a bad hemorrhage. Robert telephones his pals; they round up a doctor, get him there in a hair-raising ride. That time Pat pulls through, but her days are numbered. When winter comes...