Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour increase from his cost-of-living contract with General Motors, Walter Reuther made it plain that he would not be satisfied with any such driblets. Said he: "We're talking already about a fourth round. If you haven't heard about it already, you will hear about it next week. There's no question that the workers are due for another increase...
...fine loess dust on the rutted dirt road from Suchow to the front, 25 miles to the east, was churned by our jeep into a long brown cloud which hung in the still air. We could hear the distant thump of artillery and the crunch of aerial bombs. Ahead and in some hills to the south, puffs of white billowed where shells and bombs found targets. In a village which had been retaken from the Communists the day before, an old peasant woman squatted at a roadside pond unconcernedly whacking at her laundry with a wooden paddle. Behind...
...Austin, Tex., boogie-beating Pianist Hazel Scott flounced out on a scheduled concert before a segregated audience of 4,900. Said she: "Why would anyone come to hear me, a Negro, and refuse to sit beside someone just like...
...home in Oregon's big timber country where she grew up, perky little Elsa Berner used to hear tall tales about a fellow named Paul Bunyan. She never understood why her schoolteachers talked a lot about Hercules and Thor, but never mentioned Paul...
...patients went into a huddle over their problem and then elected a representative to call WHRV for technical advice. Norman Thomas 2L placed the call only to hear that the Network was shorthanded because most of its repair staff had gone home for Thanksgiving turkey...