Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first clear sign of a change in Democratic leadership signals came during a Senate-House conference meeting on the airport improvement bill. For three months, Oklahoma Democrat Mike Monroney, knowledgeable specialist in the jet age, had held out doggedly for the Senate's fat, $465 million airport-construction bill as opposed to the House's $297 million version. Then, one day last fortnight, influential Senator Monroney breezed into a committee session and recommended that the committee forget both bills, simply extend for two years the current airport aid of $63 million a year-only $6.000,000 more than...
Until last week, the most nagging worry of the recovery was the relatively slow drop in the rolls of the unemployed. After the jobless held at about 7% of the labor force through most of the recession, the figures dipped below 6% in November, then stayed between 5% and 6% throughout the winter, causing the experts to wonder if they might not hover there indefinitely. The May breakthrough proved the experts happily wrong, particularly since the best news came from the manufacturing industries hardest hit by recession. At a time when factory employment normally stabilizes as producers start slowing down...
Buffeted on all sides, Chicago packers made heroic attempts to cut costs by automating, but their big, old (up to 80 years), crazily laid-out buildings defied modernization. Even so, Chicago's competitors in other markets believed the city might have held on if its slaughtering operations could ever have stabilized at some reasonable volume. But nothing Chicago did could stop the drain. Whereas in the 1920s Chicago marketed and slaughtered up to 18 million head of cattle, sheep and pigs annually, this year its marketings are expected to be only 5,000,000. Some 2,000,000 head...
...Auto Workers' strike at Ford's Canton, Ohio castings plant in 1953. Seeking a reason for reopening a five-year wage contract, the U.A.W. claimed a safety violation at Canton, then the supplier of all the rear axle shafts used in Ford cars and trucks. The U.A.W. held the unionists out five weeks, forcing Ford to shut down across the nation, grant the union a big pension fund increase. The Michigan Employment Security Commission ruled that the Michigan workers were involved in the Canton strike and so were ineligible for unemployment pay. A circuit court upheld the commission...
Trouble comes when a young Masai warrior takes a fancy to Patricia. This nymphet of the Carnivora is delighted. As she well knows, a tradition of the Masai once held that a tribesman could not take a wife until he killed a lion, and Patricia eggs him on to fight King for her. The lion duly eviscerates the tribesman, but just as he is about to dispatch him, up runs the warden. Which to shoot? He hesitates for several paragraphs between his pledge to protect all animals and "an instinctive feeling of solidarity with [the man] rooted in the first...