Word: homestead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yard, an independent dormitory, or the family homestead in Metropolitan Boston will have to serve another year as the home address for approximately half the Yardlings and commuters desiring space in the Houses for 1947-48, Associate Dean Robert B. Watson '37 announced last night...
...aware of the background to New Deal labor legislation. He conceded that the abuses of power by employers had brought about the penalties which employers now suffered. He could recall the great Carnegie Steel battle at Homestead, the sweatshops of the Manhattan garment trade. He might have known something of the terror of workers in union-hating plants. But what he saw now was a counterrevolution and New Deal excesses...
...they prefer and can do best. The first general laborers will get the same pay as their Argentine peers, about $75 a month. Under Perón's grandiose five-year plan, which calls among other things for a steel plant almost as big as Pittsburgh's Homestead, there should be plenty for them...
...property to all those 800,000 D.P.s and to all those who were forced to leave Germany and lost their belongings? Money talks, and an appropriate sum as indemnity-if money can ever cover up for horrors-will make a lot of immigrants more acceptable to their eventual new homestead...
...Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. last week laid its money on the line and walked off with the biggest single cash sale the War Assets Administration had ever made. For $65,013,000, the U.S. Steel subsidiary bought the Government-owned steel facilities it had operated at Homestead, Duquesne, and Braddock, Pa. Everybody was happy. WAA clucked agreeably over the price, which it called 100% of the "fair value" and 73% (including rentals already paid) of the plants' original high wartime cost...