Word: insist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...produced 21.1% of the nation's coal in 1923, upped that figure to 31.01% last year; central and western Pennsylvania dropped from 31.08% to 26.54% in the same period. But freight rates ordinarily add 100% or more to the mine-mouth price of coal, and Southern mine operators insist that so long as they have to pay more freight they must pay less wages. Last week President Roosevelt indicated that the whole question of freight rates in the South might be reopened: he told a press conference that ICC was looking into the matter...
...story itself is as simple as starvation, as insanely complicated as law. Neither man has any legal right to existence; both of them insist on existing anyhow. Josef Steiner is hard and adroit: by cheating at cards he earns the thin security of a dead Austrian's doctored passport, works in a Viennese amusement park until Anschluss drives him to Paris. For young Ludwig Kern life is tougher: no papers, no such talent for moneymaking, an incautious enough heart to fall in love and travel with young Jewish Ruth Holland. Peddling toilet water (illegally) they move from Vienna...
...save face (by proving it could do as much for its members as anti-union Weir had done unasked for his employes), C.I.O. had to insist on the full 10? rise which it had proposed originally as a barganing point. Other steelmakers had no way out of following Weir's lead. This week not only did Bethlehem, Republic, Otis, Youngstown Sheet & Tube all grant a 10? wage increase, but U.S. Steel ended the fear of a Big Steel strike by settling with C.I.O. on the same basis. This will raise their labor costs around 16%. Their estimates...
...structure of European nations. (He had once been a professor of geography.) At that time he said of Transylvania: "I would rather wait another generation than get it by grace of the Germans." But Teleki had no choice. Columnist Thompson asked him: "What will you do if the Germans insist on using Hungary as a base for operations against another State?" He replied: "It will be Hungary's historic catastrophe . . . I do not know. I shall have to make up my mind when the moment comes." The moment came last week...
...every other college, Harvard can pare this item to the bone. If every man in one of the halls could be persuaded to move out for the weekend, free accommodations for the girls could be arranged. It is hoped that no Freshman would stand upon his constitutional rights and insist upon remaining in his rnom. It would be a simple matter to clear Straus or Lionel for the weekend. The men in these halls could bunk in another building. Details of this plan could readily be worked out in a fashion satisfactory to deans, evacuees, escorts, and committees...