Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were deep in consultation with the mineowners up above. The unions agreed to accept the government expert's word. The company agreed to suspend all dismissals for a month, to grant severance pay of 200,000 lire ($320) to anyone quitting voluntarily, and to give six days' holiday pay to all the strikers. At week's end, after 40 days in the darkness 171 squinting miners climbed out at the shaft head. "It turned out better than we expected," said...
...Guinea Pig? The question, "Will my child get the real shot?" was uppermost in the minds of tens of thousands of parents who took children, aged one to six, through Houston's eight inoculation centers, which worked day after day and right through the Fourth of July holiday. Some mothers had pestered doctors, before the inoculations began, trying to arrange for their children to get gamma globulin. A few intended to go through with the experiment, and then blithely undermine it by having their family physician give their children a "sure" shot of "G.G.," as they have come...
...Steel and Big Labor almost made it. In Washington, a three-man industry subcommittee headed by Jones & Laughlin Steel's Ben Moreell sat across the table from a labor trio headed by Steelworker Boss Phil Murray. Point by point, they took up each economic issue, e.g., pay raise, holiday pay. They made tentative agreements, went on to the next issue. Finally, they approached agreement on a wages-benefit package which would eventually cost the company 24.6? per man-hour (present average hourly wage...
...pageantry. The occasion was the traditional Trooping the Color in honor of Elizabeth II's 26th birthday. Actually, she became 26 last April 21, but like her December-born father agreed to celebrate in June so that her subjects would be more apt to have a sunny holiday...
Father Leonard J. Feeney's palace guard disturbed the holiday quiet in front of Adams House yesterday in a series of Junior clashes between the forces of St. Benedict's Center and the Gold Coast...