Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year ahead is not to use monopoly power to force wages up but to join in promoting the increased productivity that makes possible higher wages without higher prices. The need for increased productivity is nowhere more obvious than in Richard Gray's featherbedding building trades, which deliberately hold back output per man-hour through restrictive rules; e.g., painters must use brushes, not sprayers...
...were reported taking up arms against Madrid's rule. They were the towering, long-haired R'Guibat tribesmen known as the "blue men" because their robes are colored with an indigo dye that rubs off onto their skin. Rich and, until recently, gunrunning, slave-trafficking nomads who hold a virtual monopoly on camel raising in the western Sahara, they hold colonial borders in warlike contempt...
...evening of the second day, word got through that the two boys had been saved by being lashed to the tops of oak trees. His wife, he learned, had survived by scrambling onto the floating roof of the collapsed Clark house, but the children, though she desperately tried to hold on to them, were swept away...
...donate equipment and mothers to help with the secretarial work, finally opened last fall with 13 children aged 3½ to nine. By last week the McCormicks had enough children on their waiting list to assure them of an enrollment next term of 35, which is all Adastra can hold in its present quarters...
...such facts, Prudential Insurance Co. issued its usually accurate annual new-year prediction: 1958 will see a $3 billion dip in capital expenditures, but this will be offset by a rise of $5 billion in state spending and $1 billion in home building. Said President Carrol Shanks: business will hold at the present stable levels for the next six months, and then "the second half of the year is likely to be strong...