Word: insist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...council argument around the current issue of inflation. Opposing any law which will put a ceiling on wages, he claims that Industry was making profits while operating far below capacity before the war, and that those profits are enormously expanded now that plants are operating at full production. Labor insists on its share of the benefits of full production, and it wants to get them through industry-labor councils. After the war, Labor will be more interested in full employment than in a share of the profits. The unions will claim their right to prevent Industry from ever again operating...
Here, then, is one proof that there is a direct tie between the "effort and the ultimate." Inflation is a war-effort problem; full employment will certainly be an important part of the peace effort. This column does not insist that Philip Murray's council idea is the answer, nor does it endorse Industry's argument that the managers know what is best for their own company, and the unions should have no say in policy formation. It is enough for us to clarify the phrase "win the peace" by pointing out that this dispute, and other disputes already begun...
...primarily concerned with supplying adequate food to all students at the lowest prices." University Business Manager Aldrich Durant can explain over and over again that undergraduate opinion was consulted through the Student Council before the present "take it or leave it" plan was put through. The University can insist to its heart's content that Harvard Dining Halls are under "moral obligation" to stick to its word about the $8.50 board rate. But the registered protest of House petitions cannot be explained away...
...most grimly deadly dramas in World War II. The Marines were at work, kidding as they went, after the tradition of the professional soldier. A few were bandaged, but still on duty. All had lost the trim, starched look on which Marines in the tropics insist. Behind their grins of welcome their eyes were haggard, hard...
...black, chill night in Berlin last week foreign correspondents were jounced out of their sleep by the clamorous ringing of their telephones. When each answered, he was startled to hear an official voice from the Foreign Office insist that there was no revolution in Germany, either actual or likely...